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Temporary Deleting Partition?

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Re: Temporary Deleting Partition?

#21 Post by bester69 »

andre@home wrote:Taking a temporally (cheap) disk would have been a lot more comfortable.
The limits of only 4 partitions is a very known issue, and if you wanna go beyond that limit you need partition manager that can handle that.
Even if you do know that on before that, I would advise not to use that route, as any change of partions is a risk of loosing data.
So whatever you you ... you will need that extra disk anyhow. So the workaround seems a more theoretical and not a very practical route to be advised. I hope you saved all your data from your disk that you wanna change on at least 1 preferably 2 backups disks. Else you're playing with fire... "
and we might have expected a new question from you...: "Help I lost my data while I tried to delete and later recover a partition....
You were lucky..... all went ok...
Thanks, but I can manage my own risks, i usually like to take them, other way you wont never advantge in kowledges.. I have all that i need in several redundant backups in clouds.
The workaround proposed by P.H. works as a charm and its trustworthy and very easy to apply. It cant failt never, its only a writting the table partition, so unless you overlap data, you cant get yourself in a mess. I proposed to let unless 1Gb of gap to not overlapping data accidentally, this is whole risk.
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Re: Temporary Deleting Partition?

#22 Post by pylkko »

Another, not-so-directly-related-to-the-issue question is: why are you not using GPT?

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Re: Temporary Deleting Partition?

#23 Post by p.H »

pylkko wrote:why are you not using GPT?
The current partition table gives the answer to that question : because Windows is installed in BIOS/legacy mode on this drive, which requires MSDOS partitioning.
Using GPT would require to reinstall Windows in EFI mode, assuming the machine is UEFI-capable.

A workaround is to create a "hybrid MBR" combining both an old-style MSDOS partition table for Windows and a new-style GPT partition table for GNU/Linux. I have tested it and it works, but it is an ugly and unreliable hack.

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Re: Temporary Deleting Partition?

#24 Post by pylkko »

Okay, I see. I was wondering because I have installed Debian on almost exactly that hardware/BIOS (Acer Extensa) version using GPT without issue. I suppose reinstalling Windows is not the simplest thing either.

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Re: Temporary Deleting Partition?

#25 Post by andre@home »

Starting from ~3TB you must use a GPT table, below that you have a choice.

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Re: Temporary Deleting Partition?

#26 Post by andre@home »

bester69 wrote:Thanks, but I can manage my own risks, i usually like to take them, other way you wont never advantge in kowledges.. I have all that i need in several redundant backups in clouds..
OK !
It cant failt never, its only a writting the table partition, so unless you overlap data, you cant get yourself in a mess. I proposed to let unless 1Gb of gap to not overlapping data accidentally, this is whole risk.
Never say never... :mrgreen:
And
"It cant failt never"
is a so called "double ignorance"... I believe (I'm not native English).... so it actually means:
it can fail.... :lol:

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Re: Temporary Deleting Partition?

#27 Post by p.H »

andre@home wrote:Starting from ~3TB you must use a GPT table
Above 2 TiB (~2.2 TB). Not quite near 3 TB.
Also note that a partition table is not mandatory.
andre@home wrote:below that you have a choice.
Not always.
If you have Windows and BIOS, you must use MSDOS.
If you have Windows and UEFI, you must use GPT.

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