On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 09:49:42PM +0100, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote:
Thanks everyone for your responses! It seems that gdisk is still favorable for advanced tasks, but fdisk is can be used for basic tasks, as are usually required by beginners.
No, that was my point: for "advanced" tasks you need neither. I never read the beginners' guide, and don't care how it is formatted. I am just trying to un-confuse people regarding the whole GPT vs MBR thing...
2014-12-21 20:54 GMT+01:00 Leonid Isaev
: Yes. The age of a machine has no relevance for deciding whether to use GPT (or UEFI in general).
This is not true. Some low-end modern machines completely drop legacy BIOS boot. So booting via UEFI is required, and thus GPT is required.
I really doubt this. Are you saying that some vendors on purpose break such things as booting from an external USB key? For example, I have an ExoPC tablet running Arch 64bit. It is true, that there is no checkbox in UEFI config saying "legacy BIOS". However, GPT partitioning is _not_ required at all. So, I nuked the EFI partition, made the entire SSD a LUKS container, and happily boot with MBR. Cheers, -- Leonid Isaev GPG fingerprints: DA92 034D B4A8 EC51 7EA6 20DF 9291 EE8A 043C B8C4 C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D