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.mckin...@gmail.com
