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Ubuntu 12.04 installer is not recognizing my partition, so I searched for that problem here and found the solution in this link:

Ubuntu installation does not recognize drive partitioning

So my question is if i need to Erase GPT data after doing a fixpart, will it also erase all my files on that drive?

Thanks in advance for taking the time. :)

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Rifaz Nahiyan
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No; fixparts (note the s; it's not fixpart) doesn't touch anything within your partitions, just the data structures that define them. If fixparts tells you that you've got leftover GPT data, and if that's the only thing you change, then fixparts won't even adjust your "real" partition data -- it will only erase the leftover GPT data. Note that I'm the author of fixparts, so you can consider this answer authoritative.

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