[Chester LUG] LUG Meet

[robin592 at yahoo.co.uk]

Hey thanks, that looks just right! I especially like this bit in the man page:

"Like the original fdisk program, gdisk does not modify disk structures until you explicitly write them to disk, so if you make a mistake, you can exit from the program with the ’q’ option to leave your partitions unmodified."

I never got the thinking behind parted's 'sudden death' formatting style.

Robin


On Tuesday 01 August 2017 21:58:32 you wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > 
> > ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> > 
> > 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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