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Alan McKinnon 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 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 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 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 completely |
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>> erase both GPT and DOS partition tables. Why anyone would choose to use |
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>> the ultra-kludged DOS partition tables when GPT is so much more 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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I'm with ya Alan. Update tho. I use LVM. I use grub2 since a week or |
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so ago. That's a lot for me. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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