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antlists wrote: |
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> On 25/12/2020 18:24, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 11:41:03 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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>>> After 20 years on linux, I've been reduced to a newbie. BIOS boot, |
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>>> Lilo, and fdisk served me well for 2 decades. Now I'm going to have to |
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>>> learn UEFI, grub, and parted all at once. I'll start a new thread |
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>>> tomorrow once I have my config files copied off. Then I'll install |
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>>> UEFI |
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>>> mode properly. |
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>> UEFI is dead simple, and you can use gdisk, which is the GPT variant of |
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>> fdisk. So that only leave the boot manager to learn, and if you don't |
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>> already know GRUB, I'd say start with something simpler. |
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> I got the impression that on newer systems, gdisk and fdisk were the |
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> same thing ... |
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> Certainly I moved to gdisk because "fdisk can't handle GPTs", and then |
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> someone said "oh yes it can" so I investigated and oh yes it could. I |
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> still use gdisk, but as I say they now appear to be the same thing. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Wol |
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I think fdisk couldn't handle GPT at first. I guess that's why gdisk |
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came along. Then I think the fdisk folks added support for GPT and |
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since then it handles both. That's my understanding of it. If |
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possible, you may want to check the time stamps on the info you have |
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found. I suspect the ones saying fdisk can't handle GPT are older posts |
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or people who don't know it can now. From the man page: |
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fdisk is a dialog-driven program for creation and manipulation of |
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partition tables. It understands GPT, MBR, Sun, SGI and BSD partition |
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tables. |
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For gdisk: |
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GPT fdisk (aka gdisk) is a text-mode menu-driven program for creation |
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and manipulation of partition tables. It will automatically convert an |
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old-style Master Boot Record (MBR) partition table or BSD disklabel |
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stored without an MBR carrier partition to the newer Globally |
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Unique Identifier (GUID) Partition Table (GPT) format, or will load a |
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GUID partition table. |
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Odds are, you can likely use either tool but if you are using GPT, you |
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may as well use the tool made for that purpose. I think a lot of it is |
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very similar as far as options that do the same things in each program. |
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Also, there is also cfdisk and cgdisk too. The interface is different. |
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You may want to try the proper one and see which you like. I use c*disk |
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tools myself. You may prefer the others. Same result I guess. |
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Hope that helps. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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