Re: Understanding fc17 partitioning

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Hi,

>> Is there a command-line gparted or is it no longer possible to edit
>> the partition table from the command-line?
>
> I've not really looked

It's just parted for the command-line version. Thanks JD.

>> Why is there a mixture of old fdisk and new GPT disk layout?
>
> GPT is the newer disk format for the EFI world and even bigger disks. It
> fixes most of the insanity of the every hacked up BIOS format from the
> past. A lot of older BIOSes don't understand it however and may not boot
> from it.
>
> For the mapping see
>
> ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/

Ah, of course, thanks. I believe the two disks were previously
partitioned using fdisk. This must be the reason why I had a mixture
of GPT and fdisk layouts on the four disks.

Thanks again,
Alex
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