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On Jan 8, 2005, at 7:54 PM, Emanuel Strobl wrote:

> The topic says all. I'd like to increase the size of the last GPT id 
> (and
> there's space after the last sector of the last ID).
> Is it safe to delete it and create a new one with a bigger size?

The gpt(8) utility does not destroy the partition contents. It is safe
to destroy a partition and create a new one that's larger; from a
partitioning point of view of course.

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  Marcel Moolenaar         USPA: A-39004          marcel@xcllnt.net

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