[Chester LUG] LUG Meet

Tim Fletcher tim at night-shade.org.uk
Tue Aug 1 20:59:20 UTC 2017


Have a look at gdisk it’s very similar to fdisk but works with GPT

> On 1 Aug 2017, at 20:44, Robin via Chester <chester at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> I can't type.
> 
> I meant MBR, as in the Master Boot Record that's been on the first sector of a hard drive since forever, and has now been upgraded to a GUID Partition Table, aka GPT, which 'fdisk' recoils in horror from. People keep saying I should be using 'parted' instead.
> 
> Cheers,
> Robin
> 
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> Subject: Re: [Chester LUG] LUG Meet
> Date: Tuesday 01 August 2017
> From: Robin via Chester <chester at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> To: Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com>, chester at mailman.lug.org.uk
> 
> I'm OK for this.
> 
> Does anybody know anything about GPT, GUID and parted? I'm used to using MDR and fdisk, but you can't use them on really big drives.
> 
> Robin
> 
> 
> On Friday 28 July 2017 11:32:31 Les Pritchard via Chester wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I've managed to rearrange this month's meet for next Wednesday evening from
>> 7.30. We'll be meeting at the Old Custom House on Watergate street as usual.
>> 
>> Any suggestions for talks or topics in advance are welcome.
>> 
>> See you on Wednesday.
>> 
>> Les
>> 
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