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On 2013-05-10 6:00 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> 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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If there are problems with fdisk and/or good reasons that it shouldn't |
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be used anymore on modern hardware (what about in a virtual |
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environment?), maybe the Gentoo Handbook could use some updating? I just |
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recently set up a new VM on ESXi, and the Handbook still uses (and by |
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implication recommends the use of) fdisk for the setting up your |
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partitions steps. |
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