On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 08:15:26PM +0100, 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?
Yes. The age of a machine has no relevance for deciding whether to use GPT (or UEFI in general). Whenever I use LVM and/or LUKS, I set it up over the block device (like /dev/sda), not partitions (like /dev/sda1). So, there is no partition table at all. In this case, using legacy BIOS saves me from lots of UEFI-related headache. And of course, this entire motto of GPT "we support 20TiB drives" is just silly... 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