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

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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 :-)
>
>
>-- 
>Alan McKinnon
>alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

I probably also would have stayed with fdisk and dos partitions if it weren't for the fact I don't have many disks left that are small enough for it to work....

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