Alan McKinnon 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 :-) > >
I'm with ya Alan. Update tho. I use LVM. I use grub2 since a week or so ago. That's a lot for me. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
