Translations:Handbook:AMD64/Blocks/Disks/115/en

Throughout the remainder of the handbook, the following partitioning scheme is used. If this suffices, then the reader can immediately jump to Default: Using parted to partition the disk or Alternative: Using fdisk to partition the disk. Both are partitioning tools,  is well known and stable,   is more recent, and both work just fine for installing Gentoo Linux.