New Hard Drive

[shortarcflyer]

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.

[pid1]

It's always nice to have room to grow!

Any reason you're using MBR format and extended partitions and not GPT partitioning?

[shortarcflyer]

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.

[pid1]

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.

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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

Then add your partitions as desired.