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From: gs-cygwin.com@gluelogic.com
To: "Matthias@gmx.li" <matthias.meyer@gmx.li>
Cc: Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: where is parted?
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 07:54:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZZ_lGyneUQcWnQMp@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <06bf9f736c02eb236c2f8baa32d505d275fb7e4e.camel@gmx.li>

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 12:38:29PM +0100, Matthias--- via Cygwin wrote:
> fdisk reports the same partition type as sfdisk. It report "Microsoft basic data" for NTFS as well
> as for FAT32 partitions.
> 
> Am Donnerstag, dem 11.01.2024 um 11:56 +0100 schrieb Christian Franke via Cygwin:
> > Matthias--- via Cygwin wrote:
> > > I'm using sfdisk for analysing partitions on msdos partition tables. Unfortunately it don't
> > > support
> > > GPT tables.
> > > Is there another tool, like parted, what can be used?
> >
> > /sbin/fdisk from package util-linux-2.33.1-2 supports GPT.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Christian

(Aside: Matthias, this list prefers bottom posting.
        Please post at the bottom of responses.)

My go-to is gparted, though it runs on Linux.

You can boot a "live" distro on a USB stick to manipulate partitions.
https://gparted.org/download.php

gparted doc also provides:
How-to Fix Invalid MSDOS Partition Tables
https://gparted.org/h2-fix-msdos-pt.php

Cheers, Glenn

  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-11 12:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-11 10:12 Matthias@gmx.li
2024-01-11 10:56 ` Christian Franke
2024-01-11 11:38   ` Matthias@gmx.li
2024-01-11 12:54     ` gs-cygwin.com [this message]
2024-01-11 13:30     ` Christian Franke

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