Re: Formatting second hard disk

2021-03-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 6:44 PM Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > > I am sort of old school so tend to just use the `fdisk` command line util, > > but that is rather old so maybe gdisk would be the better option now. > > fdisk now supports GPT too, there is no need to use gdisk Thanks to all for your hel

Re: Formatting second hard disk

2021-03-01 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 2/28/21 11:26 PM, Doug H. wrote: I am sort of old school so tend to just use the `fdisk` command line util, but that is rather old so maybe gdisk would be the better option now. fdisk now supports GPT too, there is no need to use gdisk Regards. -- Roberto Ragusamail at robertoragus

Re: Formatting second hard disk

2021-03-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 5:40 AM Paul Smith wrote: > > Dear All, > > I have got a second hard disk on my desktop computer, which I would > like to format. My machine runs Fedora 33, and I would like to ask you > what format to adopt: the new Btrfs is advisable? > > Moreover, could you please direct

Re: Formatting second hard disk

2021-02-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2021-02-28 at 14:26 -0800, Doug H. wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2021, at 4:39 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I have got a second hard disk on my desktop computer, which I would > > like to format. My machine runs Fedora 33, and I would like to ask you > > what format to adopt: the

Re: Formatting second hard disk

2021-02-28 Thread Doug H.
On Sun, Feb 28, 2021, at 4:39 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > I have got a second hard disk on my desktop computer, which I would > like to format. My machine runs Fedora 33, and I would like to ask you > what format to adopt: the new Btrfs is advisable? > > Moreover, could you please direc

Formatting second hard disk

2021-02-28 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, I have got a second hard disk on my desktop computer, which I would like to format. My machine runs Fedora 33, and I would like to ask you what format to adopt: the new Btrfs is advisable? Moreover, could you please direct me to some documentation on how to format the hard disk? Using G