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 and recommended for the MBR partition layout, while   is more recent and recommended for GPT layouts.