On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 12:04 PM William Park via talk <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3/28/21 7:30 AM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > For any future issues you might want to take a look at gparted. You can > resize and reformat disk volumes with comparative ease. I've used it many > times without losing data and without having to resort to my backups. > > > Gparted gives me problems when formatting USB drives that need to boot. > If you partition a USB drive with "fdisk" and with "gparted" and compare > the MBR, you will see gparted puts lots of data into MBR whereas fdisk > modifies just the partition table. > I don't think I've ever actually partitioned a usb drive. I've only used dd to create a boot usb via a ready made distribution iso. I have used gparted to revert GPT to MBR when I was dealing with UEFI issues, but that was more about me crawling up the learning curve than anything else. I believe most, at least the most mainstream linux distros, are installed using GPT as it can handle drives larger than 2tb. > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- Russell
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