Re: Understanding fc17 partitioning

2012-06-02 Thread Peter A
On 06/02/2012 11:17 PM, William Brown wrote: Ah, of course, thanks. I believe the two disks were previously partitioned using fdisk. This must be the reason why I had a mixture of GPT and fdisk layouts on the four disks. The reason for this, is that you can have a hybrid GPT partition, which als

Re: Understanding fc17 partitioning

2012-06-02 Thread William Brown
> > Ah, of course, thanks. I believe the two disks were previously > partitioned using fdisk. This must be the reason why I had a mixture > of GPT and fdisk layouts on the four disks. The reason for this, is that you can have a hybrid GPT partition, which also has MBR signatures for older bioses

Re: Understanding fc17 partitioning

2012-06-02 Thread Alex
Hi, >> Is there a command-line gparted or is it no longer possible to edit >> the partition table from the command-line? > > I've not really looked It's just parted for the command-line version. Thanks JD. >> Why is there a mixture of old fdisk and new GPT disk layout? > > GPT is the newer disk

Re: Understanding fc17 partitioning

2012-06-02 Thread JD
On 06/02/2012 01:03 PM, Alan Cox wrote: Is there a command-line gparted or is it no longer possible to edit the partition table from the command-line? I've not really looked Well, parted is the command line mode and gparted is the gui mode. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org T

Re: Understanding fc17 partitioning

2012-06-02 Thread Alan Cox
> Is there a command-line gparted or is it no longer possible to edit > the partition table from the command-line? I've not really looked > Why is there a mixture of old fdisk and new GPT disk layout? GPT is the newer disk format for the EFI world and even bigger disks. It fixes most of the insa