Re: Hard Drive configuration
By: Dumas Walker to NELGIN on Sat May 17 2025 09:14:00

I have also used parted without issues. IIRC, it was also for something that fdisk (at the time) could not do.

Another bonus is that if you wanted more than 4 partitions with fdisk, you'd have to have a have an extended partition. I think this is more of a MBR thing. Using GPT you don't have to go through that silliness.

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I have also used parted without issues. IIRC, it was also for something that fdisk (at the time) could not do.

Another bonus is that if you wanted more than 4 partitions with fdisk, you'd have to have a have an extended partition. I think this is more of a MBR thing
Using GPT you don't have to go through that silliness.

I did not realize this. Thanks for the tip!


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On Mon, 19 May 2025 08:29:00 -0500
"Dumas Walker" (VERT/CAPCITY2)
<VERT/CAPCITY2!Dumas.Walker@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:

I have also used parted without issues. IIRC, it was also for
something that fdisk (at the time) could not do.

Another bonus is that if you wanted more than 4 partitions with
fdisk, you'd have to have a have an extended partition. I think
this is more of a MBR thing Using GPT you don't have to go through
that silliness.

I did not realize this. Thanks for the tip!

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Of course, you can get away with not creating a partition at all and
using the entire disk as LVM :)
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