Yes, that is the best plan. Glad you had a backup. It is my opinion that utilities such as gdisk should not attempt to automatically convert from MBR to GPT and visa versa. Too many edge cases where things can go wrong.
rying it this way, because I can't handle the slices for the second hdd. If there is someone on this forum who can help me out of that misery, he would really save my digital life in this digital ocean.
So not giving up, reading several times the manual of gpart. But the best hint in all that... (0 Replies)
(Don't you hate being on holiday and being the only IT person in the family?)
Got a wonderful thanksgiving surprise .. dead windows-8 laptop with "important" unbacked-up data. No worries, I have my my fedora labtop and a magical SATA to USB converter. Plugged in the drive, and ... can't mount... (4 Replies)
Hello,
My hard drive was formatted with GPT. It is part of a volume group and has two logical volumes on it. Is it possible to convert the drive to MBR? If so, how would I got about doing it? I know there are programs out there that do it, but I have volume groups with LVM's so I am wondering if... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I just built myself a new machine which has an ASUS motherboard with is UEFI based.
I noticed after I installed Fedora 17 that my sda is MBR and my sdb is GPT:
sda is a ssd drive. Should the ssd drive be GPT or is MBR okay?
sda is 60Gb drive. (3 Replies)
hello community,
i have problems with my redhat enterprise linux 4 nanhant 6 and my easyraid x8s (8x1tb) extern fibre channel raid
extern raid configuration:
raid level 5 (8x1tb)
redhat system shows me four 2tb partitions and one 450gb partition from my raid :(
why?????
i have... (1 Reply)
virt-format(1) Virtualization Support virt-format(1)NAME
virt-format - Erase and make a blank disk
SYNOPSIS
virt-format [--options] -a disk.img [-a disk.img ...]
DESCRIPTION
Virt-format takes an existing disk file (or it can be a host partition, LV etc), erases all data on it, and formats it as a blank disk. It
can optionally create partition tables, empty filesystems, logical volumes and more.
To create a disk containing data, you may be better to use virt-make-fs(1). If you are creating a blank disk to use in guestfish(1), you
should instead use the guestfish -N option.
Normal usage would be something like this:
virt-format -a disk.qcow
or this:
virt-format -a /dev/VG/LV
"disk.qcow" or "/dev/VG/LV" must exist already. Any data on these disks will be erased by these commands. These commands will create a
single empty partition covering the whole disk, with no filesystem inside it.
Additional parameters can be used to control the creation of partitions, filesystems, etc. The most commonly used options are:
--filesystem=[ext3|ntfs|vfat|...]
Create an empty filesystem ("ext3", "ntfs" etc) inside the partition.
--lvm[=/dev/VG/LV]
Create a Linux LVM2 logical volume on the disk. When used with --filesystem, the filesystem is created inside the LV.
For more information about these and other options, see "OPTIONS" below.
The format of the disk is normally auto-detected, but you can also force it by using the --format option (q.v.). In situations where you
do not trust the existing content of the disk, then it is advisable to use this option to avoid possible exploits.
OPTIONS --help
Display brief help.
-a file
--add file
Add file, a disk image, host partition, LV, external USB disk, etc.
The format of the disk image is auto-detected. To override this and force a particular format use the --format=.. option.
Any existing data on the disk is erased.
--filesystem=ext3|ntfs|vfat|...
Create an empty filesystem of the specified type. Many filesystem types are supported by libguestfs.
--filesystem=none
Create no filesystem. This is the default.
--format=raw|qcow2|..
--format
The default for the -a option is to auto-detect the format of the disk image. Using this forces the disk format for -a options which
follow on the command line. Using --format with no argument switches back to auto-detection for subsequent -a options.
For example:
virt-format --format=raw -a disk.img
forces raw format (no auto-detection) for "disk.img".
virt-format --format=raw -a disk.img --format -a another.img
forces raw format (no auto-detection) for "disk.img" and reverts to auto-detection for "another.img".
If you have untrusted raw-format guest disk images, you should use this option to specify the disk format. This avoids a possible
security problem with malicious guests (CVE-2010-3851).
--lvm=/dev/VG/LV
Create a Linux LVM2 logical volume called "/dev/VG/LV". You can change the name of the volume group and logical volume.
--lvm
Create a Linux LVM2 logical volume with the default name ("/dev/VG/LV").
--lvm=none
Create no logical volume. This is the default.
--partition
Create either an MBR or GPT partition covering the whole disk. MBR is chosen if the disk size is < 2 TB, GPT if >= 2 TB.
This is the default.
--partition=gpt
Create a GPT partition.
--partition=mbr
Create an MBR partition.
--partition=none
Create no partition table. Note that Windows may not be able to see these disks.
-v
--verbose
Enable verbose messages for debugging.
-V
--version
Display version number and exit.
--wipe
Normally virt-format does not wipe data from the disk (because that takes a long time). Thus if there is data on the disk, it is only
hidden and partially overwritten by virt-format, and it might be recovered by disk editing tools.
If you use this option, virt-format writes zeroes over the whole disk so that previous data is not recoverable.
-x Enable tracing of libguestfs API calls.
EXIT STATUS
This program returns 0 on success, or 1 on failure.
SEE ALSO guestfs(3), guestfish(1), virt-filesystems(1), virt-make-fs(1), virt-rescue(1), virt-resize(1), <http://libguestfs.org/>.
AUTHOR
Richard W.M. Jones <http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
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