Re: put gparted on minimum system, for disks over 2TB

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Subject: Re: put gparted on minimum system, for disks over 2TB
From: Virgo Pärna <virgo.parna@mail.ee>
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 06:48:59 +0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:17:24 +1100, Scott Ferguson <scott.ferguson.debian.user@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> IMO cfdisk is not a great choice due to sector sizes and starting sector
> (can cause problems with GRUB)
>
> parted or gdisk will happily partition large drives, fdisk not so much.
>

    There is also gnu-fdisk package, that has cfdisk and fdisk commands, that support GPT 
but are like traditional cfdisk and fdisk.


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