Hi, On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 08:09:34AM +0530, rahul dev wrote: > Guys, > > Just want to know if there is support for hybrid MBR in libparted?
No, 'vanilla' (lib)parted does not support writing hybrid MBRs. However, at least Ubuntu and openSUSE have patches to add some basic support for hybrid MBR. > How would libparted interpret a hybrid MBR partition table ? Hybrid MBR is in no way standardized and so various tools create different hybrid MBRs for the same set of GPT partitions. If I create hybrid MBR using openSUSE's patched parted and then run 'vanilla' parted on it, it recognizes it as GPT without any problems. However, if I create new GPT partition with vanilla parted, it overwrites hybrid MBR and creates non-hybridized protective MBR instead. For fine control over how the hybrid MBR is created, I suggest to use GPT fdisk tool: http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/index.html BTW this is worth reading: http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html HTH, Petr -- Petr Uzel IRC: ptr_uzl @ freenode
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