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GUID Partition Table (GPT)

GUID Partition Table (GPT) is a standard for the layout of the partition table on a physical hard disk.

GUID Partition Table Wikipedia

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Autounattended.xml & GPT partitions

We are trying to setup an unattended install of windows 7 to a gpt partition on a Lenovo U410, which has UEFI bios. This webpage outlines how to format the disk for GPT. If add the default configuration, from the page, to the autounattended.xml file…
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Resize base XenServer 6.0 partition

I've extended my hardware RAID device on LSI MegaRAID controller by adding disks to the array. While making Linux notice the block device size change was not straight forward, I've found that one can rescan the device (using echo y >…
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Windows 32-bit and 64-bit and GPT

I know similar questions have been asked before across several sites, but the answers at least to me have been confusing and conflicting. My understanding has always been that 64-bit Windows will create and use GPT disks just fine, but will not boot…
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HP Proliant DL120 G7 with P212/256MB SmartArray Controller GPT Support

I have the HP Proliant DL120 G7 server with P212/256MB SmartArray Controller configured with 4 - 2TB drives as RAID 1+0 (4TB usable space). I would like to have a small partition for my Linux OS and the rest as a single large partition for home.…
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grub2 does not find /boot on RAID1 md0 device

I have RAID1 md0 for /boot consisting of 4 partitions (sda2, sdb2, sdc2, sdd2). I'm using GPT on 2TB HDDs, so first partitions on each disk (sda1, ...) are 1-megabyte bios_grub partitions. I also have RAID10 md1 for LVM (containing /) and RAID0 md2…
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How to convert LVM on MDADM RAID1 on two MBR partitioned drives to GPT without data loss

I have an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Server with two 3TB Fujitsu SATA disks with MBR partition tables. Output from fdisk -l and lsblk is shown below : sudo fdisk -l /dev/sd[ab] Disk /dev/sda: 2,7 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors Units: sectors of…
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Automatically extend VM partition filesystem following a qemu-img resize

I'm launching a virtual machine with QEMU/KVM. After resizing the qcow2 disk image via qemu-img resize Test.qcow2 +500M And looking at the instance disk via: fdisk -l inside the instance, I can see the following warning message: GPT PMBR size…
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What are the steps to convert an EBS boot volume from MBR to GPT without data loss? (Using Ubuntu)

I would like to extend one of my Ubuntu servers main/boot drive beyond 2TB. I know that I need to convert the drive to use GPT, and I'm confident that I can extend the size as needed once I'm able to convert to GPT successfully. I set up a test…
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How can I make old hardware work with new (large) drives?

Good afternoon, I picked up three Dell Poweredge 1950s and 4 SunFire X2200s from my local surplus store with the intention to finally build that cluster I've been thinking about for a few months. However, I understand that drives larger than 2.2 TB…
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How to convert MBR to GPT and change from BIOS/legacy boot to UEFI

I am trying to convert a Windows 10 Enterprise VM from BIOS boot to EFI/UEFI. After extensive research I found the built-in "MBR2GPT" tool that MS released with Fall Creators Update: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/mbr-to-gpt…
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BTX halted error on FreeBSD

I understand there are a few threads about this out there but my issue seems particular. Recently my boot disk, an SSD, failed and I have just rebuilt it. Given the opportunity, I thought I might go ahead and build it with a ZFS boot device (ie…
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How to mark a linux volume as a blank/empty (before deleting partition table)

I have a bunch of disks where the partition tables are very similar (nearly identical) I need to 'erase' these disks, such that when a new partition table is created any volumes that existed prior to the partition table being deleted do not attempt…
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4TB USB3 disk compatilibity

We recently bought a USB3 Verbatim Store 'n' Save 4 TB hard disk for offline backups of our backups. It didn't work on the (Linux) server I wanted to use it on and also didn't get it to work on a Windows Server 2008 machine; the Linux machine just…
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Can a Windows Server 2008 use a GPT-only partition table?

I have here a little bit uncommon system: its primary hard disk can't have an old, DOS (MBR) partition table, only a GPT type. It is an outer restriction, that nothing can be done about. It seems as if the firmware silently rejected the disk writes…
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Scientific Linux: RAID5 unaccessible after netboot by mistake

A server running old scientific linux 6.0 suffered damage from an enabled netboot during reboot by trying to load some crap from an application server in the same subnet (I saw him stuck somewhere in an old novell setup procedure). Reboot ends in a…
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