Subj : Re: Hard Drive configuration
To : All
From : nelgin
Date : Mon May 19 2025 02:41 pm
On Mon, 19 May 2025 08:29:00 -0500
"Dumas Walker" (VERT/CAPCITY2)
<VERT/
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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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Of course, you can get away with not creating a partition at all and
using the entire disk as LVM :)
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