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- In the previous demo,

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you have seen how to
create MBR partitions.

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Now, I'm going to use gdisk,

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which is the utility of choice
to create GPT partitions,

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and I'm using it on sdc,
a complete new disk.

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Obviously, you need to do
this on complete new disks.

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So we can see partition table scan

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didn't find any partition table,

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and it creates new GPT entries in memory.

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This time we have question mark for help.

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Here are all the available commands,

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not nicely categorized
as we have seen in fdisk

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but really gdisk is very,
very similar to fdisk.

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It has commands like p
for print, and n for new,

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and that's what I'm going to use.

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And here we can see the
different partition number.

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I'm selecting my partition number one,

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and then first sector,
just pressing enter,

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last sector, plus two gigabytes.

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And then it prompts me
for a hexadecimal code.

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This hexadecimal code is
a low-level identifier.

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You need it in specific cases.

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We'll talk about it when we talk about LVM

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and about swap fail systems.

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For now, I'm just pressing enter

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to accept the default hexadecimal code.

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And p for print,

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and if I like it, and I do like it,

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I'm going to use w for write.

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Then I'm getting a warning,

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"This will override existing partitions."

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Well, I did not create any partitions.

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You want to proceed?
Yes, I want to proceed.

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And the operation has
completed successfully.

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lsblk is showing me that
on sdc we now have an sdc1.

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So at first sight there's
not really any difference

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between the MBR partition
and the GPT partition,

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but the difference will occur

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at the moment that you go
beyond the fourth partition.

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GPT allows you to address very big discs,

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and that is why on physical hardware

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GPT has really become the standard.