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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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Neil Bothwick |
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