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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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External HDD wrong size

I have an very interesting problem with a Seagate HDD (3TB): Under Windows the HDD has a size of ~3TB. When I connect it to Ubuntu 14.04 and try to format it with GParted, GParted tells me that the backup partition table (GPT) is corrupt and it uses…
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BIOS to UEFI no backup restore possible?

We have a DELL R510 server with Windows SBS 2011 (Data, Exchange, ...), we running out of space on the server. We currently have this configuration: 2x 300GB SAS in RAID 1 2x 2TB SATA in RAID 1 We want to add 4x 4TB SAS in RAID 10. To be able to…
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How to rescue deleted partition table on drive?

I accidentally dd the first 512 bytes using dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1 and the partition table is now gone. Is there ANY way to re-create the partition table. My hard drive is 2X2TB Soft RAID(GPT Partition Table) root@rescue:/#…
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XenServer 6.2: how to use a partition on install disk as SR?

I'm setting up an old spare server with XenServer 6.2 to run some test VMs and to get some experience on XenServer itself (we're used to our own linux+xen setup and to the usual VMware suspects). This specific system currently has two direct…
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lvm-managed gpt partition: partition length exceeds the loop-partition-table-imposed maximum

CentOS 6.4 /dev/sdb is a hardware raid. I'm getting this error reported from 'parted -l': Model: JetStor JetStor -VOL#000 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 39.0TB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End …
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raid5 configuration on new dell server, sbs, win2008r2

Looking for a bit guidance configuring hardware raid on a new dell t610, I am basically trying to install Hyper-vR2 as the parent OS, then I will run SBS11 and WIin2008R2 virtually on top of that. The raid card is a Perc H700 and it has 4 2TB sata…
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Creating GPT partitions on EFI raw disk using diskpart

I've got a raw, blank GPT disk for use in a UEFI system. I need to create the partitions on it using diskpart. The only tutorial I've found so far is for diskpart.efi, which I believe is slightly different from the command-line diskpart. MS guide to…
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How to work with Mac/GPT disks in Linux

I use Ubuntu and Debian Linux. I have an image of a (mac) disk that uses GPT. How do I mount one of the partions on this? I have installed gdisk and can list the partitions on the image. I would actually like to extract an image of each of the…
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Clone and resize NTFS GPT partition?

I have a ntfs partition, GPT, of 5.6 TB containing only 200 GB of data, that I need to fit onto a 1 TB partition (of a vmware ESXi guest). Vmware converter does not support GPT. Acronis disk director does not support GPT. As I am not very familiar…
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How to correctly mount GPT partitions that might have originated on either Linux or Windows

I've inherited some code that examines all available unmounted partitions and tries to determine the correct way to mount them. It checks the partition type ID using sfdisk, then issues the command mount -t ext2 if it's a Linux partition, or the…
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Windows 2008R2 x64 large partition size not usable

I have installed a win2k8r2 system on a large (4Tb) drive. During the setup I made my C: drive 300Gb, wanting to use the rest as a large data partition (was hoping GPT can be used), but after the installation, I found that my drive is divided into 3…
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Getting around the lack of GPT support with CentOS 5.4

Last night I upgraded a server (Dell 2970) to have four 1TB Hard Drives in RAID 5 which leaves a 3TB block. I tried to partition this but keep getting an error that GPT is not supported so. I found a site online telling me I need to run the dd…
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Why LVM PV UUID has non-hexadecimal characters, when the UUID standard requires them?

Trying to recover a disk with GPT partitions used as LVM2 Physical Volumes. LVM config file gives me the disk UUID: physical_volumes { pv0 { id = "TDOcy3-NrVX-Kmx8-i5M6-2qym-45Pt-cHCcuY" While most standard UUID…
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Root disk mbr and non-root gpt

I have an ec2 instance on aws running linux, with a root volume and another volume for data. Both are ext4. I need to increase the data volume size to more than 2 TB. However currently the partitioning scheme is mbr, so I'm unable to create such…
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Adaptec 6805 accessing to JBOD with GPT / NTFS

I have several hard drives with GPT and NTFS volumes, and I plugged them to an Adaptec 6805 but The volumes are not visibles from Windows 10 and from MaxView. The only option I have ti to initialize (metadata and drive), which if I understand well…
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