Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 10 May 2013 06:09:25 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>>> I myself still use fdisk whenever I can. I know I should change, I
>>> know it would be good, but I'm an old fart and mostly can't be
>>> arsed :-)
>
>> I'm with ya Alan.  Update tho.  I use LVM.  I use grub2 since a week or
>> so ago.  That's a lot for me.
>
> It's not about whether you use fdisk or gdisk, they are almost identical
> in use, it's about the type of partition table you use. If you like the
> idea of a partition table that only accepts four partitions, has to be
> kludged to use one of those as a container if you want more, has no
> simple way of backing up such a complex partition setup and has no
> redundancy in case of partition table corruption, fdisk and DOS are
> perfect for you :)
>
> DOS partition tables should have died out 30 years ago, we know who we
> have to thank for their continued existence...
>
>

Well, when I bought my 3Tb drive, I had to use GPT.  Yea, I had to
figure it out but it ain't the end of the world.  I think I used cgdisk
since I usually use cfdisk.  They are a lot alike is one reason I used
it.  If I ever replace a drive, I'll likely use cgdisk for it too.  Sort
of slowly switch over as I can.  My worry is forgetting which I used
which on.  In a way, I wish I could switch them all since cgdisk makes
it so easy.  Also, since I use LVM, I think I just made two partitions. 
For some reason, I couldn't get it to see just one large partition.  LVM
combined the two together for me tho.  I still scratch my head on that
one tho.  I have not used the backup part of cgdisk either.

I realize things change, some for the better, but sometimes it needs to
be changed when I really don't want to spend the time doing it.  It took
me a bit to figure out LVM but I did it on my time frame and wasn't
rushed, just confused at first.  Same with grub2 but I still got some
things I want to do but it does OK.  I'm still wanting to redo my disks
and have a /boot partition big enough to have sysrescue and such there
and also the memtest thing too.  Not enough space for sysrescue and
can't get it to see memtest to put it in the menu.  May start a thread
on that one day.

As long as I can spend the time learning it and not be rushed, I can
generally deal with it, mostly.  ;-)

In the OP's case, maybe he isn't ready to deal with it.  Maybe he has
another reason not to use GPT.   Maybe all he needs is the basics of fdisk?

Dale

:-)  :-)

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