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On Fri, 10 May 2013 07:10:19 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> Well, when I bought my 3Tb drive, I had to use GPT. Yea, I had to |
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> figure it out but it ain't the end of the world. I think I used cgdisk |
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> since I usually use cfdisk. They are a lot alike is one reason I used |
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> it. If I ever replace a drive, I'll likely use cgdisk for it too. |
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I used to use cfdisk, but switched to fdisk because cfdisk's partition |
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alignment wasn't good on large drives. That's not a problem with cgdisk. |
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> Sort |
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> of slowly switch over as I can. My worry is forgetting which I used |
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> which on. |
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There's nothing to remember, cgdisk and gdisk are interchangable, and |
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either will warn you if you try to use them on a DOS partitioned drive |
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(and vice versa for fdisk/cfdisk). |
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Neil Bothwick |
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K: (n., adj.) a binary thousand, which isn't a decimal thousand or even |
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really a binary thousand (which is eight), but is the binary number |
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closest to a decimal thousand. This has proven so completely confusing |
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that is has become a standard. |
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