GPT partition table shows "Microsoft basic" type

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Issue

  • After upgrading from RHEL 7.2 to 7.3, fdisk -l shows the following output:
Disk label type: gpt


#         Start          End    Size  Type            Name
 1         2048         4095      1M  BIOS boot parti 
 2         4096     40964095   19.5G  Microsoft basic 
 3     40964096     61444095    9.8G  Linux swap      
 4     61444096     73732095    5.9G  Microsoft basic 
 5     73732096   4683589631    2.2T  Microsoft basic

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Hard disk size greater than 2TB using GPT partitioning scheme

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