Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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 :-)
>
>


I'm with ya Alan.  Update tho.  I use LVM.  I use grub2 since a week or
so ago.  That's a lot for me. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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