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 5F1661381F3 for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 09:45:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84B22E0940; Fri, 10 May 2013 09:45:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f50.google.com (mail-ee0-f50.google.com [74.125.83.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 19487E0887 for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 09:45:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f50.google.com with SMTP id c41so2067010eek.37 for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 02:45:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bUY8J/gihNeCNoSZhRsUHoITpYIkgvWWtzYZSb7Btio=; b=rxvZV5AyDiA1o6mwCTsbgR+9T4jYK3smFjXNQdRn44DeuVx5BHs8RTZzg631WFc3sO yvp33LiiVw3Ofp9jpSC70og4f5fLASpz4OKv3uiYH5IAhUNB095lZeYBgZ/8AJSU+F5K i8r1pCgG+rf+fTmOz2OmgP6nuReQEFIe0Dr0Upm9eOBIml8acILOInSsrfeqoFM4IDPQ YlbDAL2pFCwTmX2pHCjU8xXQ6KPrnWPT2eCqZq2HS/7qZguxrnOAcXIjPsqdboL3u2qb a9NoA17VGj5T/NaYKhTrwfrt6Mq/FbIIgDIDXO06CwRZvf5ANHE21NbXg8CvcvO6Dlkd TtjA== X-Received: by 10.15.44.10 with SMTP id y10mr39472521eev.5.1368179111539; Fri, 10 May 2013 02:45:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.196.114] (dustpuppy.is.co.za. [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id bj12sm2450032eeb.8.2013.05.10.02.45.08 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 10 May 2013 02:45:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <518CC196.7020700@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 11:44:54 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130413 Thunderbird/17.0.5 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions References: <20130510011122.GA3929@waltdnes.org> <518CA725.5080001@hadt.biz> <20130510094702.14d31b0e@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20130510094702.14d31b0e@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0f8387ee-a651-4644-945c-ce0e575f1ca4 X-Archives-Hash: d4157f010d25cd0c27a789a481c9bdb3 On 10/05/2013 10:47, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2013 09:52:05 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: > >>> I've repartitioned it 3 or 4 times, but it still comes up with that >>> error when I fire up fdisk. Is it a problem, and if so, can I dd a >>> few sectors to remove whatever it's complaining about? >>> >> >> fdisk does not support GPT disks, use cgdisk or parted (as the error >> message clearly states) > > Or gdisk which is the most fdisk-like of the alternatives. > > Reading between the lines shows Walter doesn't want to use fdisk to deal with a GPT disk. He has a regular partitioned disk that was once GPT, and some remnants of that are left around confusing fdisk. He wants the remnants to go away and needs to know what bit of the disk to dd and make that happen. I don't know the answer to that. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com