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On 3/28/21 7:30 AM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">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.</div>
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<font face="Century Schoolbook L">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.</font><br>
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