parted and fdisk show conflicting information regarding the partition table type

Issue

• parted and fdisk show conflicting information regarding the partition table type
• parted shows the disk has an msdos partition table

# parted /dev/vdb p

Model: Unknown (unknown)
Disk /dev/vdb: 10.7GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start  End  Size  Type  File system  Flags

• fdisk shows that a GPT partition is detected

# fdisk /dev/vdb -l

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/vdb'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.

Disk /dev/vdb: 10.7 GB, 10737418240 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20805 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System