Re: GParted & protective MBR.
David Wright <[email protected]>
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On Tue 26 May 2026 at 12:02:51 (-0700), [email protected] wrote: > When GParted creates a GUID partition table, is a protective MBR > created automatically? I would very much expect it to, but I too would advise checking it after you have finished using gparted. > Is any interaction from me necessary or advisable? I would also expect you to create some partitions as well. At this point, things aren't so clear. I've read that gparted my change the protective MBR to a hybrid¹ one under some circumstances. However, I don't know what those circumstances are. > Answers may be in documentation but I haven't found them. Neither can I find matches for "protective" or "hybrid" in the manual.² > A link is welcome. I would recommend using gdisk. There's a cgdisk variant that uses curses if you need a display, rather than typing p occasionally. You could hardly do better than start reading at: https://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/ which has more resources at the end of that page. (Some of the links duplicate the documentation contained in the gdisk package itself.) ¹ https://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html ² https://gparted.org/display-doc.php?name=help-manual Cheers, David.