Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> 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 :-) > > >-- >Alan McKinnon >alan.mckin...@gmail.com
I probably also would have stayed with fdisk and dos partitions if it weren't for the fact I don't have many disks left that are small enough for it to work.... -- Joost -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
