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On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 8:41 AM Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 5:06 AM <tuxic@××××××.de> wrote: |
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> > ...because I have experienced neither any restrictions nor any |
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> > fragilities in the last 12 years of using a MTB setup with that |
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> > "MS-DOS" setup (technically it is more a MTB-setup. MSDOS refers |
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> > to V/FAT, which needs to be used with UEFI in the first partition |
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> > as far as I know...isn't it?) |
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> > In short: Never chance a runnig system. |
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> > But let us better discuss on a more technical level, since I asked |
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> > for technical help and not for more rethorical given question as |
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> > an answer. |
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> Here's a technical reason to prefer GPT universally: it stores 2 |
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> copies of the partition table, one at the start of the disk and one at |
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> the end of the disk. If either copy gets destroyed, you should be able |
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> to recover the partition table from the other copy. |
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Mike, |
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What's the process for doing that in general? I assume it's |
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fundamentally to copy the one at the end (what tools) and then to place it |
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back at the beginning? (what tools? |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |