New Hard Drive
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New Hard Drive
Recently purchased a 1TB hard drive for my laptop. Installed it yesterday and loaded up my favorite distros that I use regularly. I dont think I will run out of space any time soon.
Void Linux
Re: New Hard Drive
It's always nice to have room to grow!
Any reason you're using MBR format and extended partitions and not GPT partitioning?
Any reason you're using MBR format and extended partitions and not GPT partitioning?
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- shortarcflyer
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Re: New Hard Drive
The reason is that I am familiar with MBR and comfortable with it. I have no experience with GPT and have not learned it yet. I guess it is something I need to put on my to/do list.
Void Linux
Re: New Hard Drive
I was on the same bandwagon - avoided GPT because I Was unfamiliar. It's really no big change (in practice) though. I used fdisk to format my drives. A simple change from MBR flag to GPT flag is all it takes, the rest is the same setting up partitions. In fdisk, justpress g to create a GPT partition table instead of MBR.
This is, of course, on a new drive or one you wish to reformat completely as your current partition scheme will be destroyed.
Then add your partitions as desired.
This is, of course, on a new drive or one you wish to reformat completely as your current partition scheme will be destroyed.
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rich@zenith ~ % doas fdisk /dev/sda
Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.39.3).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.
Command (m for help): g
Created a new GPT disklabel (GUID: 114004FA-4FD7-4FDB-AEE3-12F1B7BD8E75).
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: SHGS31-1000GS-2
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 114004FA-4FD7-4FDB-AEE3-12F1B7BD8E75
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