<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 12:04 PM William Park via talk <<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org">talk@gtalug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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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></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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. <br></div><div><br></div><div>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. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I believe most, at least the most mainstream linux distros, are installed using GPT as it can handle drives larger than 2tb.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br>
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</blockquote></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Russell<br></div></div></div></div></div></div>