On 9/18/2012 4:46 PM, lee wrote:
Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes:On Ma, 18 sep 12, 19:24:45, lee wrote:2) Is "msdos" a valid option to choose for this hard drive?Is "msdos" a useful partition type for you? Try "Linux", and if it works, you can try to change it to msdos.Partition *table*, not *type* ;)Are you sure there is such a thing as an "msdos" partition table? There seem to be a couple types of partition tables, and "msdos" doesn't seem to be amongst them[1]. Then there are "partition types" and "partition type codes", see [2]. The OP probably refers to the "partition type code", more commonly referred to as partition type. IIRC fdisk does that. If it does, perhaps we should file a bug against fdisk to have that changed to "partition type code"? [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_table [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partition
There is confusion here between partition table type and partition type. The partition table holds information about the different partitions. An msdos partition *table* can hold a linux partition.
Use msdos, gpt, or nothing: LVM over a physical volume, for a partition *table* type. gpt has the advantage over msdos (or just 'dos') that it supports partitions over 2TB in size.
Use linux for partitition type if you don't go for LVM. Step one: INitialize the disk with a partition table. Step two: Add some partitions.At least one partition for the system (root---/), and probably a small one for swap. Maybe a separate one for /boot, maybe a separate one for /home.
(I use LVM, so to keep things simple, I put LVM logical volumes inside a partition (rather than on a bare disk), and put /boot on an 8GB separate partition.)