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On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote: > > Protip: put /home, /opt and /usr/local on dedicated partitions or volumes so > that you can reformat /, /boot, etc., without erasing user data and custom > software installs. But I would still lose my DHCP, internal DNS, NFS, NTP, multiple user account passwords, printer configs, crontabs, etc., etc., etc.; if I did this. Even though I only have a few machines, I don't run them as if they were single-user Internet browsing machines. > It is not possible to go the other way (GPT to MBR) without wiping and > reformatting the disk. Apparently not always true. This guy apparently wrote GPT fdisk: http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/ and has a page which describes how to do it (when it is possible): http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/mbr2gpt.html He also discusses using Hybrid MBR/GPT partitioning on other web pages as well as UEFI booting. Looks like a good resource overall for this. Bill Bogstad
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