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

[Sebastiaan Lokhorst]

Thanks everyone for your responses! It seems that gdisk is still favorable
for advanced tasks, but fdisk is can be used for basic tasks, as are
usually required by beginners.

2014-12-17 5:43 GMT+01:00 Stefan Höck <efasckenoth at gmail.com>:
>
> However, I think we still should consider having only UEFI in the
> beginners guide and link to a separate wiki entry if somebody needs an
> MBR partition.
>

I really like this idea but I think it is not quite the time yet. We're
trying to simplify everything else though, so I hope that the Beginners'
guide will be clearer anyway.

2014-12-21 20:54 GMT+01:00 Leonid Isaev <lisaev at umail.iu.edu>:

> Yes. The age of a machine has no relevance for deciding whether to use GPT
> (or
> UEFI in general).
>

This is not true. Some low-end modern machines completely drop legacy BIOS
boot. So booting via UEFI is required, and thus GPT is required.

Thanks,
Sebastiaan