Re: Default disk partition table type?

[Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>]

pere@hungry.com (Petter Reinholdtsen) writes:

> [Bdale Garbee]
>> No.  Any new ia64 installation should use GPT, not FAT-style MSDOS labels.
>
> Do you know what parted calls these disk labels?  I do not.

It calls them "GPT" in both the mklabel command and in the display.  A typical
example on one of my HP i2000 systems running Debian with parted 1.4.24-4 
looks like:

  (parted) print
  Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-17366.445 megabytes
  Disk label type: GPT
  Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Name             Flags
  1          0.017    100.000  FAT                          boot, lba
  2        100.000    500.000  FAT                          hp-service, lba
  3        500.000   2548.000  linux-swap                   lba
  4       2548.000  10740.000  ext3                         lba
  5      10740.000  17366.429  ext3                         lba
  (parted) help mklabel
    mklabel LABEL-TYPE            create a new disklabel (partition table)

        LABEL-TYPE is one of: sun, GPT, bsd, mac, pc98, msdos, loop
  (parted)

Bdale