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Helmut Jarausch <jarausch <at> skynet.be> writes: |
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> Hi, |
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> having formatted dozens of hard disks with fdisk, I'm lost with GPT |
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> partitioning. |
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> My new drive was preformatted for Windows, so I first deleted the two |
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> partitions which were present. |
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> Unfortunately I've used fdisk. |
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> Then I tried to use gdisk. I have created 4 partitions, the first of |
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> which started at sector 2048. |
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> I wrote the partition table back to disk, synced and remove the |
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> (portable USB-) disk from my system. |
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> Then I connected it again. |
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> Now my problem is, that my system only shows /dev/sde and /dev/sde1 |
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> whereas I expected to see |
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> /dev/sde1 ,.../dev/sde4 . |
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First determine if the motherboards is a Bios or EFI variety. |
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Then, decide which bootloader you are going to use:: grub(legacy) grub2, |
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lilo, gummi, EFI, etc etc? Last, how many different distros will you |
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ultimately be booting off that disk. |
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Then with that data, decide which formatting tool to use. (Others will |
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disagree with this logical progression, which is good as long as they |
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refine there reasons, explicitly.) |
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hth, |
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James |
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