Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation

2023-05-27 Thread David Christensen
On 5/27/23 07:42, mick.crane wrote: On 2023-05-27 10:33, Michael wrote: On Friday, 26 May 2023 11:47:04 CEST, Thomas Schmitt wrote: (And as mick.crane already noticed, it is a bit awkward to create an extended partiton 2 only to fill it nearly up with logical partition 5. I wonder what entity d

Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation

2023-05-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Back in the (DOS/w95) days, you would usually create one primary and one > extended, and populate the extended with as many partitions as you want. IIRC the reason why there was still that one primary was that you could only boot to a primary partition. BTW, I don't use extended partitions any

Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation

2023-05-27 Thread zithro
On 26 May 2023 11:47, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, mick.crane wrote: root@pumpkin:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 223.57 GiB, 240057409536 bytes, 468862128 sectors ... Disklabel type: dos ... Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 466862079 46686

Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation

2023-05-27 Thread Dan Ritter
mick.crane wrote: > > I just installed bookworm on another SSD disk. > The installer said it was going to partition the disk one for the / and > another for swap > After the installation the extended partition was there. > Is this some attribute of pre formatted SSDs Nah, this is just the defau

Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation

2023-05-27 Thread mick.crane
On 2023-05-27 10:33, Michael wrote: On Friday, 26 May 2023 11:47:04 CEST, Thomas Schmitt wrote: (And as mick.crane already noticed, it is a bit awkward to create an extended partiton 2 only to fill it nearly up with logical partition 5. I wonder what entity decided to do so.) on my debian 11

Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation

2023-05-27 Thread Michael
On Friday, 26 May 2023 11:47:04 CEST, Thomas Schmitt wrote: (And as mick.crane already noticed, it is a bit awkward to create an extended partiton 2 only to fill it nearly up with logical partition 5. I wonder what entity decided to do so.) on my debian 11 test vm with default installation it i

Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation

2023-05-26 Thread DdB
Am 26.05.2023 um 11:47 schrieb Thomas Schmitt: > (...) > (And as mick.crane already noticed, it is a bit awkward to create an > extended partiton 2 only to fill it nearly up with logical partition 5. > I wonder what entity decided to do so.) > About one year ago, i was helping some neighbor at se

Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation

2023-05-26 Thread David Christensen
On 5/26/23 02:47, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >>On 5/23/23 14:59, David Christensen wrote: Your disk has 468862128 sectors. A GPT secondary partition table should start 33 sectors before the end of the disk: Here i disagree. The size of the GPT partition array is adjustable. 32 blocks of 4 entries

GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation

2023-05-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, mick.crane wrote: > > > root@pumpkin:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda > > > Disk /dev/sda: 223.57 GiB, 240057409536 bytes, 468862128 sectors > > > ... > > > Disklabel type: dos > > > ... > > > Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type > > > /dev/sda1 * 2048 466862079 466860032