<div dir="ltr">Hi Liam<div><br></div><div>Thank you for your comments. I am learning a lot from them.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards</div><div>Hans</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 6:58 PM, Liam Proven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com" target="_blank">lproven@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 29 August 2016 at 05:32, Peter Silva <<a href="mailto:peter@bsqt.homeip.net">peter@bsqt.homeip.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> There are many options... fdisk is a dos/windows oriented<br>
> partitioner.<br>
<br>
This is not true.<br>
<br>
Linux has a variety of fdisk tools and it is 100% normal practice to use them.<br>
<br>
> I have never used fdisk on linux. The "normal" tool for<br>
> that is "parted", (or the gui version: gparted)<br>
<br>
Not true -- parted is an alternative, for dynamic disk partition<br>
resizing, but there's no need to use it and there's no particular<br>
reason or need to.<br>
<br>
Just because you're more familiar with it does not make it more<br>
standard or anything.<br>
<br>
> but there are also<br>
> volume managers, such as lvm,<br>
<br>
These are not alternatives or equivalents to fdisk, gparted etc. They<br>
are different ways of managing drives, but it is possible to use them<br>
alongside fdisk or other tools.<br>
<br>
> and filesystems that subsume volume<br>
> management, such as btrfs, or zfs.<br>
<br>
ZFS, yes.<br>
<br>
Btrfs, no. It can do this but it's not recommended -- you can't have<br>
swap, you can't hibernate, you can't boot UEFI computers off it, and<br>
so on.<br>
<br>
Btrfs can be used on a normal partition like any other Linux<br>
filesystem and that's the normal route.<br>
<br>
> There isn't a simple answer to your question. there are many<br>
> different answers for many different situations. What is the file<br>
> system for? (laptop/server, are you going to use multiple disks<br>
> together to make one virtual disk?, removable media?, accessible by<br>
> multiple OS's? which OSes?)<br>
<br>
Well, yes, there is. For normal use, the OP should partition their<br>
drive with whatever partitioning tool they prefer, as normal, and put<br>
filesystems in the partitions.<br>
<br>
Do not format raw drives in normal use.<br>
<br>
For this partitioning, fdisk or sfdisk or cfdisk are all perfectly<br>
acceptable tools that I use frequently.<br>
<br>
I appreciate that you are trying to be helpful here, but you need to<br>
check that what you believe is in fact correct before issuing<br>
categorial statements. We all make mistakes, so it is wise to check<br>
before answering.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hans Bieshaar<br>Ringstraat 12<br>6005 NW Swartbroek<br>Netherlands<br>tel. +31 (495) 71 20 71<br>mob. +31 (6) 29 49 40 91<br><br>I must be doing something wrong!</div><div>Not being mentioned in the Panama Papers.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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