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

[Jakub Klinkovský]

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...

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jlk
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