On 2014-12-16 20:23, Jakub Klinkovský wrote:
On 16.12.14 at 20:15, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
On 2014-12-16 19:58, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote:
Hello everyone,
Since more than a year now, fdisk (provided by util-linux) has had GPT support. This theoretically makes gdisk a duplicate of fdisk, and we could replace gdisk with fdisk.
Now, I'm not asking to drop gdisk or anything like that, but in an effort to clean up the Beginners' guide of the Arch Wiki, we want to use a single partitioning tool for both MBR and GPT partitioning instructions.[1] util-linux fdisk is able to provide this functionality, but we are not completely sure if it is stable by now (it should be, I think).
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...
Oh, sure, but maybe such complications should be pushed to a subpage? I'm not sure why you put "obsolete" in quotation marks...? I have a machine from ~5 years ago that has no problem with GPT. I certainly understand that we should strive to support old hardware and such *as long as it makes sense effort-wise*, but perhaps the Beginner's Guide is not the place to do that? (Beginners are perhaps likely to have reasonably up-to-date hardware, etc. etc.) (I don't feel strongly about it, so whatever. Just offering it as a PoV.) Regards,