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On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:00:50AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote |
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> That's not quite how I read it, but... gdisk has an option to completely |
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> erase both GPT and DOS partition tables. |
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I erased the GPT table. |
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> Why anyone would choose to use the ultra-kludged DOS partition tables |
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> when GPT is so much more elegant is beyond me, unless they have old |
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> hardware that can't read a GPT disk. |
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Familiarity, I suppose. I've used the same layout for several years. |
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fdisk can easily handle a 1 terabyte disk. For now, my big change is to |
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use ext4fs instead of Reiserfs for my main partition. |
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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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