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On 10/05/2013 10:47, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 10 May 2013 09:52:05 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: |
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>>> I've repartitioned it 3 or 4 times, but it still comes up with that |
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>>> error when I fire up fdisk. Is it a problem, and if so, can I dd a |
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>>> few sectors to remove whatever it's complaining about? |
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>> fdisk does not support GPT disks, use cgdisk or parted (as the error |
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>> message clearly states) |
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> Or gdisk which is the most fdisk-like of the alternatives. |
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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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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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