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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>On 10/05/2013 12:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Fri, 10 May 2013 11:44:54 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> Reading between the lines shows Walter doesn't want to use fdisk to |
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>deal |
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>>> with a GPT disk. |
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>>> He has a regular partitioned disk that was once GPT, and some |
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>remnants |
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>>> of that are left around confusing fdisk. He wants the remnants to go |
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>>> away and needs to know what bit of the disk to dd and make that |
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>happen. |
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>>> I don't know the answer to that. |
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>> That's not quite how I read it, but... gdisk has an option to |
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>completely |
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>> erase both GPT and DOS partition tables. Why anyone would choose to |
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>use |
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>> the ultra-kludged DOS partition tables when GPT is so much more |
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>elegant is |
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>> beyond me, unless they have old hardware that can't read a GPT disk. |
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>The usual reasons I suppose: |
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>habit, familiarity, lack of new knowledge, fear of the unknown |
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>I myself still use fdisk whenever I can. I know I should change, I know |
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>it would be good, but I'm an old fart and mostly can't be arsed :-) |
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>Alan McKinnon |
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>alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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I probably also would have stayed with fdisk and dos partitions if it weren't for the fact I don't have many disks left that are small enough for it to work.... |
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Joost |
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