How to safely remove rest of GTP?
Rodney W. Grimes
freebsd-rwg at pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net
Tue Jan 31 15:43:20 UTC 2017
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> > It is impossible to have a corrupted GPT and some
> > other type of partition table in the same time.
I believe that statement is in error.
dd if=/boot/boot0 of=/dev/ada0
Would not that lead to this very situation if done
to a GPT parted disk drive?
> Maybe when only using FreeBSD and gpart, but I'm pretty sure I've seen
> forum users who have tried some crappy other formatting tool and have
> overwritten the primary GPT with a valid MBR and left the secondary GPT
> untouched. This only becomes obvious when they bring the disk back to a
> FreeBSD system.
As almost all MBR tools are un aware of GPT so well not do anything to
destroy the secondary GPT, so this is infact very likely to occur.
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Rod Grimes rgrimes at freebsd.org
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