On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 01:07:58 +0000, antlists wrote: > > UEFI is dead simple, and you can use gdisk, which is the GPT variant > > of fdisk. So that only leave the boot manager to learn, and if you > > don't already know GRUB, I'd say start with something simpler. > > > > > I got the impression that on newer systems, gdisk and fdisk were the > same thing ... > > Certainly I moved to gdisk because "fdisk can't handle GPTs", and then > someone said "oh yes it can" so I investigated and oh yes it could. I > still use gdisk, but as I say they now appear to be the same thing.
Indeed, GPT support has now been added to fdisk. So all versions of gdisk handle GPT while recent versions of fdisk do it. That's why I recommend gdisk, to be certain of using a version with GPT support. -- Neil Bothwick The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
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