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How do I convert a MBR drive (with LVM) to GPT in Ubuntu?

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Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP up vote 0 down vote favorite The Ubuntu installer defaults to a MBR drive setup when a UEFI BIOS isn't detected. It still uses LVM as the automatic partition scheme. In Fedora there's a way to force the installer using a boot flag (inst.gpt) to create a GPT drive with LVM. There's not currently a way to do this on Ubuntu so how do I convert the MBR drive to GPT with a LVM scheme? lvm gpt mbr share | improve this question asked Feb 20 at 1:17 warsong 186 1 14 add a comment  |  up vote 0 down vote favorite The Ubuntu installer defaults to a MBR drive setup when a UEFI BIOS isn't detected. It still uses LVM as the automatic partition scheme. In Fedora there's a way to force the installer using a boot flag (inst.gpt) to create a GPT drive with LVM. There's not currently a way to do this on Ubuntu so how do I convert the MBR drive to GPT with a LVM scheme? lvm gpt mbr ...

Why is “boot-repair” listed twice in the ubuntu documentation?

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Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP up vote 5 down vote favorite 1 I'm new to Ubuntu and I'm going through the official documentation. Can someone explain why the command sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair lists "boot-repair" twice? boot-repair share | improve this question asked Feb 20 at 1:32 Gabriel Fair 98 1 15 2 Obviously because boot-repair is twice as important as the other commands (joke) – Baldrickk Feb 20 at 11:57 add a comment  |  up vote 5 down vote favorite 1 I'm new to Ubuntu and I'm going through the official documentation. Can someone explain why the command sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair lists "boot-repair" twice? boot-repair share | improve this question asked Feb 20 at 1:32 Gabriel Fair 98 1 15 2 Obviously because boot-repair is twice as important as the o...