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 F33F71381F3 for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 10:55:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50D50E0973; Fri, 10 May 2013 10:55:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f49.google.com (mail-bk0-f49.google.com [209.85.214.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EF44FE095C for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 10:55:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f49.google.com with SMTP id e19so1979548bku.36 for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 03:55:33 -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=QcvV5EU83/47uzH6iTI/ZRqyDsbqJNs7EWL+PmUL8FA=; b=ks6BFAgblPynUao6FA/nPNvY3dTy30Mdtp4Uw9BpqKgnlPvJBPIIqPLjG1CEpDaSuR 2zvOavoOtOM6HoJ5oSS+Vv8i07N7SFOLwgfw/3dMUTve+Z1gX7uG6ZcOkhTdIO5pRZgS 5mRwbf3w2uLx/Et47igbYrRVohJ3LAZ2RwADl9Mybuwt7h1Vna/Y2AHocaORpgpIdarx I+D1mszFrxZh+oZbITsA+NYciEdWBIuFbO1o5PW9g3I4AJUWhgQlmcgn3oOFBb8IdtsB Ft4MBSFPJgIyMCGFIw9lbpX3WnDnuF0NHTscJtrUY9MFzbI6qOigOpNiZRz/h6UEeDXS In0Q== X-Received: by 10.204.108.196 with SMTP id g4mr4187907bkp.26.1368183333323; Fri, 10 May 2013 03:55:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.196.114] (dustpuppy.is.co.za. [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id i15sm524712bkz.12.2013.05.10.03.55.30 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 10 May 2013 03:55:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <518CD214.1050801@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 12:55:16 +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> <518CC196.7020700@gmail.com> <20130510110050.50b2852d@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20130510110050.50b2852d@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 16ab7cd0-e1ad-4609-a623-5ff85693ec56 X-Archives-Hash: 0b6f74d23d26bd2272d17a2b96ec58eb On 10/05/2013 12:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2013 11:44:54 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> 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. > > That's not quite how I read it, but... gdisk has an option to completely > erase both GPT and DOS partition tables. Why anyone would choose to use > the ultra-kludged DOS partition tables when GPT is so much more elegant is > beyond me, unless they have old hardware that can't read a GPT disk. The usual reasons I suppose: habit, familiarity, lack of new knowledge, fear of the unknown I myself still use fdisk whenever I can. I know I should change, I know it would be good, but I'm an old fart and mostly can't be arsed :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com