On 2013-05-10 6:00 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> 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.
If there are problems with fdisk and/or good reasons that it shouldn't
be used anymore on modern hardware (what about in a virtual
environment?), maybe the Gentoo Handbook could use some updating? I just
recently set up a new VM on ESXi, and the Handbook still uses (and by
implication recommends the use of) fdisk for the setting up your
partitions steps.
