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On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:44:54AM +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 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 of that are left around confusing fdisk. He wants the |
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> remnants to go away and needs to know what bit of the disk to dd |
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> and make that happen. |
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You're right. That is what I meant I finally found the answer. |
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http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/wipegpt.html is the URL to see. My |
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Google-fu isn't quite what it used to be. For anybody else's benefit, |
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here's what I did... |
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===================Screen Capture follows===================== |
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livecd ~ # gdisk /dev/sda |
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GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.4 |
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Partition table scan: |
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MBR: protective |
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BSD: not present |
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APM: not present |
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GPT: present |
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Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. |
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Command (? for help): x |
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Expert command (? for help): z |
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About to wipe out GPT on /dev/sda. Proceed? (Y/N): y |
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GPT data structures destroyed! You may now partition the disk using fdisk or |
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other utilities. |
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Blank out MBR? (Y/N): n |
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MBR is unchanged. You may need to delete an EFI GPT (0xEE) partition |
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with fdisk or another tool. |
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livecd ~ # |
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fdisk now starts without the GPT warning. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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