Hello, On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, James wrote: [..]
Well, the best I found is this on the gdisk homepage: http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html Basically, you shouldn't. The article tackles most aspects and pitfalls. [..] >Number Start End Size Type File system Flags > 1 1049kB 211MB 210MB primary ext2 boot > 2 211MB 139GB 138GB primary linux-swap(v1) > 3 139GB 952GB 813GB primary ext4 > 4 952GB 2000GB 1049GB primary ext4 You'd have to get rid of one of those partitions (I'd say /boot). By following the example in the above webpage, it worked on a file. But it is rather sure to fail if you need more than 3 partitions (as one is taken for the GPT, that leaves 3 more primary ones in the MBR and logical partitions is doomed to fail. HTH, -dnh -- "Cynical" is a term invented by optimists to describe realists. -- Gregory Benford