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

[Bardur Arantsson]

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,