What is Protective Master Boot Record (MBR) and why it is used in GUID partition table (GPT) specification ?

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Issue

  • What is Protective Master Boot Record (MBR) ?
  • Why MBR is reserved in GPT ?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server.
  • Globally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs)
  • GUID partition table (GPT)

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