Robert et al -- ...and then Robert Webb said... % On Sun, 30 Oct 2022 20:06:59 +0000, David T-G <davidtg-robot@justpickone.org> wrote: % % > I'd love to use GPT, because I like its flexibility, but I think I could % > happily live with MSDOS partitioning because I only need ... % % You are not limited to just four MSDOS partitions. There may be three [snip] True, and thanks for the reminder pointer. I've always hated logical partitions, though, not least because you can't boot from them; that for me is a huge reason to love GPT. Not that it helped my circumstances, though :-/ I sliced the disk diskfarm:~ # parted /dev/sde p free Model: ATA SATA SSD (scsi) Disk /dev/sde: 256GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 32.3kB 1049kB 1016kB Free Space 1 1049kB 36.5GB 36.5GB primary type=82 2 36.5GB 73.0GB 36.5GB primary boot, type=83 3 73.0GB 110GB 36.5GB primary type=83 4 110GB 256GB 147GB primary type=83 256GB 256GB 352kB Free Space and created mirrors on each partition diskfarm:~ # grep sde /proc/mdstat md124 : active raid1 sde1[0] md125 : active raid1 sde2[0] md126 : active raid1 sde3[0] md127 : active raid1 sde4[0] and installed, and it once again didn't work. I now have diskfarm back up on sda via the thumb drive "boot linux system" option and can access it remotely; yay. Curiously, though, that did not even notice sde, so there's absolutely no progress there. I need to go back and update in the right spot in this horrible ghastly thread and then perhaps try partitioning the morrired entire device, but of course at least the install part of that will involve being back home again, so it will be a while. Thanks again & HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt