From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 748B0158089 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:45:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E7F12BC0EF; Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:45:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (mail.digimed.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C0C892BC0EA for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:45:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 6F65717559B for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:45:31 +0100 (BST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=digimed.co.uk; s=digimed; t=1697651131; bh=c6+O90eMFuh7Q7x/Ue8w7tuYtgsAWMKhEY+/XfNGJvQ=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=nacu9ztzG/KOhjyqZ1fg0468wZipygfqqtEUokhnBZOtPys4kez03YJkFhJHuzXe/ T59hSkl3UuglPhpFtA+G+cfOHY5kQ6VPHtxoz+kHsP1h2RXitAjIG5VYA8KopHVnea ahGXSsSOeyaXlCTGyCBVSAUNiHEOAR1VCzNv6xxo= Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:45:27 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help Message-ID: <20231018184527.11afc10f@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <2581583.Lt9SDvczpP@rogueboard> References: <17dbcf2a-13c7-b8c0-69f1-a09e5288cfd5@gmail.com> <452fc599-ce6c-3bf9-4ad8-e253a94439c7@gmail.com> <20231018083606.7ebd2d77@digimed.co.uk> <2581583.Lt9SDvczpP@rogueboard> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.1.1 (GTK 3.24.38; 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/i=QVS8EGsLh4+RO_5jlhz50"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 X-Archives-Salt: 3f69b795-6f74-4edf-a7bc-98eaf7b9ec3b X-Archives-Hash: aa8103370d29c19e8b941143f3230b05 --Sig_/i=QVS8EGsLh4+RO_5jlhz50 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:23:23 +0100, Michael wrote: > > Oh, and if you use GPT, you no longer need the MBR compatibility > > partition, or whatever its called. I no longer need it so I can't > > remember the exact name. =20 >=20 > Man pages of partitioning tools refer to it as "Protective MBR", > although I've seen it mentioned in the interwebs as "protective GPT", > which I think is more accurate. It uses the first sector (LBA 0) to > store an MBR table showing the whole disk, or 2TB if smaller, as an MBR > partition. This is the first partition on the disk, typically 1 MiB in > size. It is meant to stop 20 year old partitioning tools from messing > up a GPT partitioning scheme because they can't see it. Arguably > nobody uses Windows 98 these days, so it should be safe to not have a > protective MBR on your GPT disks. You need it if your hardware doesn't support EFI booting. --=20 Neil Bothwick The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten per cent of its capacity ... the rest is overhead for the operating system. --Sig_/i=QVS8EGsLh4+RO_5jlhz50 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEGfLZTV7dXdQXh/dDdCdyyQfftocFAmUwGbcACgkQdCdyyQff todBvw/9EDRvY48kowIRHD9P9KxNdOtWk3n7DGTbxa0bFE/yFSKAmnabxnyAjwUx 12L0dFGEM1+ROWUix3T+JGUqQMZqnqXpDY1OF40SJ1Kpnt6F80usJStDL40/Jndt Y18vVSJhZHf6e/nLHea8+0rRnOQMIaHWxW0LP0jNN59LMTIgPkKwijt3mg2Zk4U3 Z95dDEBhUvWLtBUjgQCl6t/vgQEVzCHeyinEibLEJxJKXhE7Omd1f1tm0EVUUh1V ZAqqXz7tmxUd3MTCLWNYpJr5iBaAv/QwpIEpW6aGH3fZbS/BTLkQkQ8UEACHZOvL CHaODX1L/OLUbMjpWYJpEH4tZD6tpftwKn2TFYYeaamoQOseLrvSINKCeOqG5c09 S4AFFlpLlqCY9cGkoqOD8AoGAd5upeBGDB1n5HFi55sdxcxP10EfHj9ALUbsGefe IdLGrF9vpUjIjIYlrAjhaVy5cOBDamDk9uRmltGqpC3abZm4hAY1l3ykWSYTObXh t7LK1AAMaahKyl7v76Onhu8X5K5BJNr5IVQ5c7xMOoRviXhO73sfB6SiXxErbBxo qqXRLd6x7dhoUEyq4S8/n/eJB5R6ahi2M7LlbPazK9ztzb8bLEacDmCXtFFsszaq JubyQZ84d2sAkzmUGOlJSzLMFxym4gVJbfZkAlGFu9v7sqry1NY= =dFUQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/i=QVS8EGsLh4+RO_5jlhz50--