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 176E11381F3 for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 13:22:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68ED8E09E0; Fri, 10 May 2013 13:22:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gg0-f176.google.com (mail-gg0-f176.google.com [209.85.161.176]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 409A0E09A2 for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 13:22:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-gg0-f176.google.com with SMTP id o5so882045ggn.35 for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 06:22:31 -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:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=HvnEryJkBrzD3PcnOvaZNIOF0qHh0nZQNAakHAS5CB8=; b=NbCWMuinHMeDXBhxbwyV57aj9AtwYUeJRmHgwKxJkGeqLPvuK9Y66iBcrDL/0GLds6 LbTHEyRTm4JYNp8f9mOVP3ZedlyVvwOjTArVQ0hFl4FGcwvEDSQ7dWjbl6VqVTB3M11W iOPXctezPwrxcOrSaa23TF9TLxrZOteXDpGicptDUOid8my0O7TnGsPPjMcGCGcq2HWY eXmcvbl+B8+D/8itxm3zSkdPZY0+GwAne2ikQdJFVe9me2YfQ1vWFlFLGI7rknD5Fu9a 3NwT4v8Bklx1cZoVbtkigHHxhAUwIcokmR31O+8I3qNNkatmTIsDn7Nj3hCGZW2oWKff GPYw== X-Received: by 10.236.0.138 with SMTP id 10mr7291164yhb.95.1368192150925; Fri, 10 May 2013 06:22:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-124-54.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.124.54]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id b70sm3296618yhm.3.2013.05.10.06.22.29 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 10 May 2013 06:22:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <518CF494.6090306@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 08:22:28 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0 SeaMonkey/2.17.1 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> <518CD214.1050801@gmail.com> <518CD565.4000400@gmail.com> <20130510124016.38093aaf@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <518CE3AB.9080700@gmail.com> <20130510132340.2a1d2e81@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20130510132340.2a1d2e81@digimed.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5e0bb4b0-9ba7-4522-b944-4a2193f7a866 X-Archives-Hash: ca9ff80735156c4621e760b5c936b0fd Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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. That was why I had to use cgdisk. The drive is large. I think cfdisk spit out a error or something. I'm to old and it was to long ago. lol On my other disks, I'm not sure I had even heard of cgdisk when I set them up. >> 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). > > That's good to know. At least I know now if I run cfdisk on a drive that I am supposed to use cgdisk on, I'll get a notice. Thanks for that tidbit. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!