with/no fdisk when adding disk

[Hans Bieshaar]

Hi Liam

Thank you for your comments. I am learning a lot from them.

However, in your last mails you did not mention gdisk. From what I seem to
remember of the original problem, the disk might already have a GUID
Partion Table.

Kind regards
Hans

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 6:58 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 29 August 2016 at 05:32, Peter Silva <peter at bsqt.homeip.net> wrote:
> > There are many options...  fdisk is a dos/windows oriented
> > partitioner.
>
> This is not true.
>
> Linux has a variety of fdisk tools and it is 100% normal practice to use
> them.
>
> > I have never used fdisk on linux.  The "normal" tool for
> > that is "parted", (or the gui version: gparted)
>
> Not true -- parted is an alternative, for dynamic disk partition
> resizing, but there's no need to use it and there's no particular
> reason or need to.
>
> Just because you're more familiar with it does not make it more
> standard or anything.
>
> > but there are also
> > volume managers, such as lvm,
>
> These are not alternatives or equivalents to fdisk, gparted etc. They
> are different ways of managing drives, but it is possible to use them
> alongside fdisk or other tools.
>
> > and filesystems that subsume volume
> > management, such as btrfs, or zfs.
>
> ZFS, yes.
>
> Btrfs, no. It can do this but it's not recommended -- you can't have
> swap, you can't hibernate, you can't boot UEFI computers off it, and
> so on.
>
> Btrfs can be used on a normal partition like any other Linux
> filesystem and that's the normal route.
>
> > There isn't a simple answer to your question.   there are many
> > different answers for many different situations.   What is the file
> > system for?  (laptop/server, are you going to use multiple disks
> > together to make one virtual disk?, removable media?, accessible by
> > multiple OS's? which OSes?)
>
> Well, yes, there is. For normal use, the OP should partition their
> drive with whatever partitioning tool they prefer, as normal, and put
> filesystems in the partitions.
>
> Do not format raw drives in normal use.
>
> For this partitioning, fdisk or sfdisk or cfdisk are all perfectly
> acceptable tools that I use frequently.
>
> I appreciate that you are trying to be helpful here, but you need to
> check that what you believe is in fact correct before issuing
> categorial statements. We all make mistakes, so it is wise to check
> before answering.
>
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