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,
