
On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 12:04 PM William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 3/28/21 7:30 AM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote:
For any future issues you might want to take a look at gparted. You can resize and reformat disk volumes with comparative ease. I've used it many times without losing data and without having to resort to my backups.
Gparted gives me problems when formatting USB drives that need to boot. If you partition a USB drive with "fdisk" and with "gparted" and compare the MBR, you will see gparted puts lots of data into MBR whereas fdisk modifies just the partition table.
I don't think I've ever actually partitioned a usb drive. I've only used dd to create a boot usb via a ready made distribution iso. I have used gparted to revert GPT to MBR when I was dealing with UEFI issues, but that was more about me crawling up the learning curve than anything else. I believe most, at least the most mainstream linux distros, are installed using GPT as it can handle drives larger than 2tb.
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