[arch-general] fdisk vs. gdisk for GPT partitioning

[Bardur Arantsson]

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?

Regards,