Blaugust Articles

A yearly blogging challenge to write and post at least once a day (or the equivalent) in the month of August. I first participated in 2026.

• Removing a Hybrid MBR from a GUID-Partitioned Disk Today I learned about hybrid MBR/GUID partition tables, where the GPT on a disk is duplicated in an MBR table for (outdated) compatibility purposes. These days it can break compatibility with Windows if you have a partition MBR doesn’t support, like a multi-terabyte filesystem.
• What is rel="bookmark"? I stumbled on a reference to rel=“bookmark” being used for permalinks, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it used that way.

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