How to confirm which partition table (MBR/GPT) does the system use ?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x

Issue

  • How to confirm which partition table (MBR/GPT) does the system use ?

They want to know which partition table type (MBR/GPT) used on their system.

Resolution

See the 'Partition Table' line in parted command line tool.

]# parted <DEVICE_NAME>

(parted) print                                                            
Model: ATA HITACHI HTS72503 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 320GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

==(snip)==

(parted) quit
]#

In above example, this system is using msdos (MBR) partition table.

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