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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat GPT Partitions Post 302926715 by sea on Wednesday 26th of November 2014 10:07:54 AM
Old 11-26-2014
If it was in a state of hibernation/suspend or updating, you might be only able to mount the disk in read-only mode.

gdisk is the gpt pendant to fdisk.
Code:
yum info gdisk
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
Name        : gdisk
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 0.8.10
Release     : 2.fc20
Size        : 659 k
Repo        : installed
From repo   : updates
Summary     : An fdisk-like partitioning tool for GPT disks
URL         : http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/
License     : GPLv2
Description : An fdisk-like partitioning tool for GPT disks. GPT fdisk features a
            : command-line interface, fairly direct manipulation of partition table
            : structures, recovery tools to help you deal with corrupt partition
            : tables, and the ability to convert MBR disks to GPT

 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

dk

DK(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						     DK(4)

NAME

     dk -- Disk partition (wedge) driver

SYNOPSIS

     options DKWEDGE_AUTODISCOVER
     options DKWEDGE_METHOD_BSDLABEL
     options DKWEDGE_METHOD_GPT
     options DKWEDGE_METHOD_MBR

DESCRIPTION

     The dk driver provides a disk-like interface to an area of a physical disk.  Wedges may be configured manually with dkctl(8) or automatically
     by the kernel upon the attachment of the physical disk.

KERNEL OPTIONS

     DKWEDGE_AUTODISCOVER     Automatically detect and configure wedges using any available methods.

     DKWEDGE_METHOD_BSDLABEL  BSD disklabel detection method.

     DKWEDGE_METHOD_GPT       Extensible Firmware Interface Globally Unique Identifier Partition Table (GPT) detection method.

     DKWEDGE_METHOD_MBR       IBM PC-compatible Master Boot Record (MBR) partitioning detection method, with support for Extended MBRs.

FILES

     /dev/{,r}dk*  dk device special files.

SEE ALSO

     config(1), disklabel(8), dkctl(8), fdisk(8), gpt(8), MAKEDEV(8)

HISTORY

     The dk driver first appeared in NetBSD 3.0.

AUTHORS

     The dk driver was written by Jason R. Thorpe.

BSD
								   May 19, 2010 							       BSD
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