Re: Understanding fc17 partitioning

2012-06-02 Thread Peter A
On 06/02/2012 11:17 PM, William Brown wrote: Ah, of course, thanks. I believe the two disks were previously partitioned using fdisk. This must be the reason why I had a mixture of GPT and fdisk layouts on the four disks. The reason for this, is that you can have a hybrid GPT partition, which als

Re: Understanding fc17 partitioning

2012-06-02 Thread William Brown
> > Ah, of course, thanks. I believe the two disks were previously > partitioned using fdisk. This must be the reason why I had a mixture > of GPT and fdisk layouts on the four disks. The reason for this, is that you can have a hybrid GPT partition, which also has MBR signatures for older bioses

Re: Understanding fc17 partitioning

2012-06-02 Thread Alex
Hi, >> Is there a command-line gparted or is it no longer possible to edit >> the partition table from the command-line? > > I've not really looked It's just parted for the command-line version. Thanks JD. >> Why is there a mixture of old fdisk and new GPT disk layout? > > GPT is the newer disk

Re: Understanding fc17 partitioning

2012-06-02 Thread JD
On 06/02/2012 01:03 PM, Alan Cox wrote: Is there a command-line gparted or is it no longer possible to edit the partition table from the command-line? I've not really looked Well, parted is the command line mode and gparted is the gui mode. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org T

Re: Understanding fc17 partitioning

2012-06-02 Thread Alan Cox
> Is there a command-line gparted or is it no longer possible to edit > the partition table from the command-line? I've not really looked > Why is there a mixture of old fdisk and new GPT disk layout? GPT is the newer disk format for the EFI world and even bigger disks. It fixes most of the insa

Understanding fc17 partitioning

2012-06-02 Thread Alex
Hi, I just did an install of fc17 x86_64 on a box with 4 SATA 250GB disks and set up the partitions manually. I created /boot on sda as one 500MB partition, then two RAID partitions using the rest of the contents of the disks. The first is a RAID1 with four disks for root and the rest is /var. Is