Strange Combination of Disk Layouts
I have a strange combination of disk layouts created by keeping disks, etc. See below.
I have an ASUS P9X79 PRO motherboard.
I have two Ubuntu disks and two Windoze disks. I have not used the Windoze installs for several years. Most likely will use these for backup or something.
This came to light when I installed a SDD and started looking to move everything to that. In doing so, I rfe-arranged the physical connection of drives. The new SDD and the two Ubuntu drives are connected to 6GB SATA ports.
In the confusion, I have moved the boot disk away from its lower connection and have to use BIOS boot menu to boot. I guess I need something like 'fdisk /MBR' to fix the boot problem.
Since I have 18.04 for daily use, I plan to put that on the SDD. I think I need 4 partitions.
1. FAT 32 for boot stuff
2. /
3. swap
4. /home - I lost everything one time due to my inability to follow directions when updating...
With a dedicated /home partition it is more difficult to do that. But, I can find a way!
How do I put a MBR and boot stuff on all the disks?
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Model: ATA WDC WD5000AAKX-6 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
4 17.4kB 1049kB 1031kB ext4 bios_grub
1 1049kB 538MB 537MB fat32 boot, esp
2 538MB 483GB 482GB ext4
3 483GB 500GB 17.1GB linux-swap(v1)
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/dev/sdb
Model: ATA WDC WD5000AAKX-6 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 1049kB 1016kB primary
2 1049kB 106MB 105MB primary ntfs boot
3 106MB 500GB 500GB primary ntfs
4 500GB 500GB 1073kB primary
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/dev/sdc
Model: ATA WDC WD5000AAKX-0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 500MB 499MB primary fat32
2 500MB 180GB 180GB primary ext4 boot
3 180GB 200GB 20.0GB primary linux-swap(v1)
4 200GB 500GB 300GB primary ext4
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/dev/sdd
Model: ATA WDC WD5000AAKX-2 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdd: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 1049kB 1016kB primary
2 1049kB 106MB 105MB primary ntfs boot
3 106MB 500GB 500GB primary ntfs
4 500GB 500GB 1073kB primary
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/dev/sde
Error: /dev/sde: unrecognised disk label
Model: ATA CT500MX500SSD1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sde: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: unknown
Disk Flags:
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