parted and fdisk show conflicting information regarding the partition table type

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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

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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