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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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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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That was why I had to use cgdisk. The drive is large. I think cfdisk |
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spit out a error or something. I'm to old and it was to long ago. lol |
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On my other disks, I'm not sure I had even heard of cgdisk when I set |
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them up. |
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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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That's good to know. At least I know now if I run cfdisk on a drive |
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that I am supposed to use cgdisk on, I'll get a notice. Thanks for that |
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tidbit. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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