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Originally written: 1/2011; Last Web page update: 6/17/2013 (last major update: 5/4/2012) I'm a technical writer and consultant specializing in Linux technologies. This Web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads; however, I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does cost money. If you find this Web page useful, please consider making a small donation to help keep t

Last Web page update: 4/18/2022, referencing GPT fdisk version 1.0.9 This Web page, and the associated software, is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads; however, I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does cost money. If you find GPT fdisk or this Web page useful, please consider making a small donation to help keep this site up and running. Thanks! Note: This page is

Originally written: 6/24/2011; last update: 5/1/2012 I'm a technical writer and consultant specializing in Linux technologies. This Web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads; however, I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does cost money. If you find this Web page useful, please consider making a small donation to help keep this site up and running. Thanks! You'

Originally written: 9/23/2011; last update: 7/7/2018 This Web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads; however, I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does cost money. If you find this Web page useful, please consider making a small donation to help keep this site up and running. Thanks! Most computers today boot using Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) firmware,

by Roderick W. Smith, rodsmith@rodsbooks.com Originally written: March 14, 2012; last Web page update: April 6, 2024, referencing rEFInd 0.14.2 This Web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads; however, I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does cost money. If you find this Web page useful, please consider making a small donation to help keep this site up and runn

by Roderick W. Smith, rodsmith@rodsbooks.com Originally written: March 14, 2012; last Web page update: April 6, 2024, referencing rEFInd 0.14.2 This Web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads; however, I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does cost money. If you find this Web page useful, please consider making a small donation to help keep this site up and runn

Originally written: 1/2011; Last Web page update: 6/17/2013 (last major update: 5/4/2012) I'm a technical writer and consultant specializing in Linux technologies. This Web page is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads; however, I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does cost money. If you find this Web page useful, please consider making a small donation to help keep t

Last Web page update: 4/18/2022, referencing GPT fdisk version 1.0.9 This Web page, and the associated software, is provided free of charge and with no annoying outside ads; however, I did take time to prepare it, and Web hosting does cost money. If you find GPT fdisk or this Web page useful, please consider making a small donation to help keep this site up and running. Thanks! GPT fdisk (consisti

Note: This page is part of the documentation for my GPT fdisk program. GPT was designed with improved robustness in mind compared to the older MBR partition table; as noted in What's a GPT?, GPT includes stored CRC values to help utilities spot problems and redundancy to help recover from them. Neither of these features makes GPT completely immune to errors, though; they just help utilities to det

Note: This page is part of the documentation for my GPT fdisk program. GPT is a very flexible partitioning scheme with many advantages over the older MBR system. (For details, see the What's a GPT? section of this document.) GPT does have one glaring problem, though: compatibility. Some OSes, particularly older ones, have limited or no GPT support. When using such an OS, an ugly, flaky, and downri