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* [gentoo-user] Re: GPT newbee needs some help
  @ 2016-07-21 20:11 99% ` James
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From: James @ 2016-07-21 20:11 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Helmut Jarausch <jarausch <at> skynet.be> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> having formatted dozens of hard disks with fdisk, I'm lost with GPT  
> partitioning.
> 
> My new drive was preformatted for Windows, so I first deleted the two  
> partitions which were present.
> Unfortunately I've used fdisk.
> Then I tried to use gdisk. I have created 4 partitions, the first of  
> which started at sector 2048.
> I wrote the partition table back to disk, synced and remove the  
> (portable USB-) disk from my system.
> Then I connected it again.
> Now my problem is, that my system only shows  /dev/sde and /dev/sde1  
> whereas I expected to see
> /dev/sde1 ,.../dev/sde4 .

First determine if the motherboards is a Bios or EFI variety. 

Then, decide which bootloader you are going to use:: grub(legacy) grub2,
lilo, gummi, EFI, etc etc? Last, how many different distros will you
ultimately be booting off that disk.

Then with that data, decide which formatting tool to use. (Others will
disagree with this logical progression, which is good as long as they
refine there reasons, explicitly.)

hth,
James



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