From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 246D21381F3 for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 12:24:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 957DCE09D1; Fri, 10 May 2013 12:23:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D0DDE098F for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 12:23:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 951E3805B6 for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 13:23:55 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 13:23:40 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions Message-ID: <20130510132340.2a1d2e81@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <518CE3AB.9080700@gmail.com> References: <20130510011122.GA3929@waltdnes.org> <518CA725.5080001@hadt.biz> <20130510094702.14d31b0e@digimed.co.uk> <518CC196.7020700@gmail.com> <20130510110050.50b2852d@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <518CD214.1050801@gmail.com> <518CD565.4000400@gmail.com> <20130510124016.38093aaf@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <518CE3AB.9080700@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.1-6-gb55ac0 (GTK+ 2.24.17; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/7ryB0CFpfAFOrIH1kqXaIck"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: bb1a986f-24fb-427c-95c0-a393c429bedf X-Archives-Hash: c7a085529778c2916c9d8efa3ad29e8a --Sig_/7ryB0CFpfAFOrIH1kqXaIck Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 10 May 2013 07:10:19 -0500, Dale wrote: > Well, when I bought my 3Tb drive, I had to use GPT. Yea, I had to > figure it out but it ain't the end of the world. I think I used cgdisk > since I usually use cfdisk. They are a lot alike is one reason I used > it. If I ever replace a drive, I'll likely use cgdisk for it too. I used to use cfdisk, but switched to fdisk because cfdisk's partition alignment wasn't good on large drives. That's not a problem with cgdisk. > Sort > of slowly switch over as I can. My worry is forgetting which I used > which on. There's nothing to remember, cgdisk and gdisk are interchangable, and either will warn you if you try to use them on a DOS partitioned drive (and vice versa for fdisk/cfdisk). --=20 Neil Bothwick K: (n., adj.) a binary thousand, which isn't a decimal thousand or even really a binary thousand (which is eight), but is the binary number closest to a decimal thousand. This has proven so completely confusing that is has become a standard. --Sig_/7ryB0CFpfAFOrIH1kqXaIck Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlGM5tsACgkQum4al0N1GQPbHACfXU8Bf41QO6BhGKS4g67fkjFa rggAn3ZhGBlCZ/bkE3y5Tfa2caWyddZL =KlZl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/7ryB0CFpfAFOrIH1kqXaIck--