On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:13 PM Mark Knecht wrote:
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> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 8:41 AM Mike Gilbert wrote:
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> > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 5:06 AM wrote:
> > > ...because I have experienced neither any restrictions nor any
> > > fragilities in the last 12 years of using a MTB setup with tha
On 28/03/2020 06:19, tu...@posteo.de wrote:
From what I read on the internet:
Everything bigger than 2TB needs to be GPT-formatted.
Is there anything better than gparted for that job?
gdisk? fdisk?
Basically, I think pretty much all of the popular linux utilities have
been updated.
You cou
> The BIOS of any machine old enough to be using FAT-style MBR cannot cope with
> anything newer, so if you have one, you're stuck with it.
The BIOS does not care about partitions at all: it just loads and
executes whatever is on the first sector of the disk.
As long as you are using a bootloade
On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 11:40:49 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> > ...because I have experienced neither any restrictions nor any
> > fragilities in the last 12 years of using a MTB setup with that
> > "MS-DOS" setup (technically it is more a MTB-setup. MSDOS refers
> > to V/FAT, which needs to be used w
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 8:41 AM Mike Gilbert wrote:
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> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 5:06 AM wrote:
> > ...because I have experienced neither any restrictions nor any
> > fragilities in the last 12 years of using a MTB setup with that
> > "MS-DOS" setup (technically it is more a MTB-setup. MSDOS refer
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 5:06 AM wrote:
> ...because I have experienced neither any restrictions nor any
> fragilities in the last 12 years of using a MTB setup with that
> "MS-DOS" setup (technically it is more a MTB-setup. MSDOS refers
> to V/FAT, which needs to be used with UEFI in the first par
On Saturday, 28 March 2020 10:43:50 GMT Michael wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 March 2020 06:19:56 GMT tu...@posteo.de wrote:
> > Since there is A LOT of stuff to read about UEFI, MTBR and hybrid
> > systems I want to sort out, what I need to read in advance.
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> What is "MTBR"?
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> Mean Time Between
On Saturday, 28 March 2020 06:19:56 GMT tu...@posteo.de wrote:
> Hi,
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> Since there is A LOT of stuff to read about UEFI, MTBR and hybrid
> systems I want to sort out, what I need to read in advance.
What is "MTBR"?
Mean Time Between Repair? :-/
I'll assume you mean MBR.
> The setup will be
On 03/28 08:49, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 07:19:56 +0100, tu...@posteo.de wrote:
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> > From what I read on the internet:
> > Everything bigger than 2TB needs to be GPT-formatted.
> > Is there anything better than gparted for that job?
> >
> > So I need to format the harddisc wit
On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 07:19:56 +0100, tu...@posteo.de wrote:
> From what I read on the internet:
> Everything bigger than 2TB needs to be GPT-formatted.
> Is there anything better than gparted for that job?
>
> So I need to format the harddisc with a GPT.
>
> The SSD:
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> 1.) From the pure techn
Hi,
Since there is A LOT of stuff to read about UEFI, MTBR and hybrid
systems I want to sort out, what I need to read in advance.
The setup will be:
512 SSD carrying the root fs with all directories with heavy write-loaded
mounted
with/in/at/on/beneath/beyond/under/by/for (or whatever preposit
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