On 2014-12-16 19:58, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote: > So, now my question: is there anyone who has had bad experiences with > fdisk and GPT partitions, where gdisk was superior? Or any other objections > why we should keep gdisk instructions in the Beginners' guide? The only shortcoming I've run across is fdisk is less capable than gdisk with hybrid MBRs and can't do GPT->MBR conversion at all. The former is not something a Beginner's Guide user should be touching, in my opinion; the latter may be useful for those who accidentally create GPT disks when they need an MBR instead. On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Jakub Klinkovský <j.l.k@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 16.12.14 at 20:15, Bardur Arantsson wrote: >> 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... I had to use MBR on a relatively recent machine because the supposedly-UEFI firmware refused to even recognise GPT disks, let alone boot from them. It's still relevant. ~Celti
