Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2019 01:15:54
Message-Id: 2ce6f129-77ed-88b8-2f2a-54518986c1e9@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB by Wol's lists
1 Wol's lists wrote:
2 > On 05/07/2019 15:30, Robin Atwood wrote:
3 >> Thanks Vladimir, that sounds promising. Can you recommend any GPT
4 >> programs (this is new to me)? However the dd utility failed when I
5 >> tried to copy my old HD to the new one.
6 >
7 > Recommend any gpt programs? fdisk :-) ?
8 >
9 > Yes I know it was said it doesn't work, but ime it's been upgraded to
10 > cope. That said, I always use gdisk now, which is almost the same but
11 > explicitly handles gpt.
12 >
13 > Cheers,
14 > Wol
15 >
16 >
17
18
19 I've used cgdisk myself.  Mostly because I started out using cfdisk for
20 smaller drives and then when large drives came along, cgdisk was
21 available.  Both work the same way so no learning curve. 
22
23 Just another option to consider I guess.
24
25 Dale
26
27 :-)  :-)