Re: [gentoo-user] hardware disk description

2024-05-28 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 29 May 2024 00:10:07 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 28/05/2024 20:51, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > My machine has protected mbr with gpt partitions on it. Are those kind of > > partitions hybrid? > > This is completely standard nowadays. I think the "protected MBR" just > points to the firs

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware disk description

2024-05-28 Thread Wols Lists
On 28/05/2024 20:51, Jude DaShiell wrote: My machine has protected mbr with gpt partitions on it. Are those kind of partitions hybrid? This is completely standard nowadays. I think the "protected MBR" just points to the first four GPT partitions. This is basically down to the fact that (a)

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware disk description

2024-05-28 Thread karl
Jude DaShiell: > My machine has protected mbr with gpt partitions on it. Are those kind of > partitions hybrid? Why not check for yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table You can use theese to find out what you have: file -s /dev/sda fdisk -l /dev/sda Regards, /Karl Hammar