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On Wed, 5 Aug 2015, Bernt Hansson wrote:

>
>
> On 2015-08-04 14:44, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> On 08/04/15 04:24, Bernt Hansson wrote:
>>> On 2015-08-04 09:13, Quartz wrote:
>>>> Trashed stick or not, you should still download copies of UBCD and 
>>>> GParted though :)
>>> Well, not now.
>> 
>> 
>> If not now, when? 
> Probably never.AS long as MBR exist I'm going to use it.

Pretty much every partitioning utilty supports MBR.  The better ones 
support MBR and other formats including GPT.  GPT is really much easier 
to use than the older formats, more capable and simpler.

>> Those are both fabulous little toolkits to have at your disposal for the 
>> next time they're needed.
>
> Never needed them.

Nice to have around when needed, though.  mfsBSD is sort of a FreeBSD 
version: http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/