Subj : Re: Hard Drive configuration
To   : All
From : nelgin
Date : Mon May 19 2025 14:41:48

On Mon, 19 May 2025 08:29:00 -0500
"Dumas Walker" (VERT/CAPCITY2)
<VERT/CAPCITY2!Dumas.Walker@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:
> >  > I have also used parted without issues.  IIRC, it was also for
> >  > something that fdisk (at the time) could not do.  
> 
> > Another bonus is that if you wanted more than 4 partitions with
> > fdisk, you'd have to have a have an extended partition. I think
> > this is more of a MBR thing Using GPT you don't have to go through
> > that silliness.  
> 
> I did not realize this.  Thanks for the tip!
> 
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Of course, you can get away with not creating a partition at all and
using the entire disk as LVM :)
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