From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A57F9138350 for ; Fri, 1 May 2020 16:01:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 43BBCE0AC6; Fri, 1 May 2020 16:01:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpcmd15177.aruba.it (smtpcmd15177.aruba.it [62.149.156.177]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93F16E0948 for ; Fri, 1 May 2020 16:01:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.agr.fm ([151.48.153.140]) by Aruba Outgoing Smtp with ESMTPSA id UY5wjvZHuwFhmUY5xjchul; Fri, 01 May 2020 18:01:00 +0200 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=aruba.it; s=a1; t=1588348860; bh=74tHfih6214sQDpLhmes/Ukl6OpfTtiLt9/gb6usnwo=; h=Subject:To:From:Date:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=Hpa7r/O3u++py6lKuIDluz5lCLimtng9EF7bnVSYAjmOyHVPvKku2mr2GkdSh69c8 WDKt9cY9d2UBBPXZeTOTvkmj/gvxhcD6P3ro6IHJhHWD5euoJ5WBGCOW5+dNrF9BLN fC5/uzl4ifnKq5F8daB5dTQ13M3VnrU7yySBKxsFeVsCHp2+1RfHo5DOmMNI3PQmuA g8JMr0x04NntjL+Lbv2FzZX0hBJglBWPU5ndDp1mt8fU9rAbTJrqPj6Kjlpew1eKm4 8g2fLGoplE1TtaxtHaRvB8XJ5a/7YCTGzYKH+EwzsECA/w49UVd2cgEGVks+fgxZlr memJvWswOreAQ== Received: from raven.agr.fm (raven.agr.fm [192.168.64.6]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mail.agr.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D48B336001B for ; Fri, 1 May 2020 18:00:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20200430093217.efprkpt4kbvir7nr@solfire> <5EAAA0AB.3050505@youngman.org.uk> <22faa7cf-7291-b430-c646-b96c6d428f19@alyf.net> <20200430180839.iz4kxipst2i5stwp@solfire> <20200430192713.ptlo7crtwvskse7n@nabokov.fritz.box> <34ab0115-9336-ad41-5d30-7c8ce6ff1210@alyf.net> <20200430204754.hyh2xzeovsj23xdl@nabokov.fritz.box> <20200501050705.cu3adpnkdaauqhdq@solfire> <180730dc-e061-e168-bc0f-3839497338ce@alyf.net> <20200501071810.h6qs7kgewwtbytqd@solfire> From: Andrea Conti Message-ID: Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 18:00:56 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200501071810.h6qs7kgewwtbytqd@solfire> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfH+S6hkRzhxhxcXNLzTOsUc1r9O0FOe/HPEDUxV+vTP2uPyBIWoVRZDaxYezivzqdmdOc+G+BqOUgxBxuf8Jhdbc1zxQdZ0TNLkDTzOawL/Gd58wOivj fWmV4Lr5xWEGK/GpW4Gpns5wtOVgEJ33YHSjYyLJtVWw6+5bq4wLwvO5 X-Archives-Salt: ab887234-572a-49bc-b125-818875076126 X-Archives-Hash: 70ccdebe9bc0d2300062381d1ade90d6 > A very *#BIG THANK YOU#* for all the great help, the research and > the solution. I myself am back in "normal mode" :) You're welcome! > What is the most reasonable setup here: > GPT without any hybrid magic and ext4 because it is so common? I would go with MBR and a single ext4 partition. GPT is fine too, but for a 1TB disk with a single partition it has absolutely zero advantage over MBR. andrea