On 2014-12-16 19:58, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote:
So, now my question: is there anyone who has had bad experiences with fdisk and GPT partitions, where gdisk was superior? Or any other objections why we should keep gdisk instructions in the Beginners' guide?
The only shortcoming I've run across is fdisk is less capable than
gdisk with hybrid MBRs and can't do GPT->MBR conversion at all. The
former is not something a Beginner's Guide user should be touching, in
my opinion; the latter may be useful for those who accidentally create
GPT disks when they need an MBR instead.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Jakub Klinkovský
On 16.12.14 at 20:15, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
Speaking from complete ignorance... do significant numbers of people still use MBR for non-obsolete platforms/machines?
The Beginners' guide still applies to people with "obsolete" hardware...
I had to use MBR on a relatively recent machine because the supposedly-UEFI firmware refused to even recognise GPT disks, let alone boot from them. It's still relevant. ~Celti