On Oct 7, 2018, at 4:09 AM, Nicolas Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr> wrote: > > How "experimental" > (e. g. prone to blow up in my face) is fdisk really? So far, I've only > used it for MBR-style partitioning. I have no idea. In fact, before your post, I had no idea fdisk even had GPT awareness. I’m replying because you have a third option besides fdisk and gdisk, which should be present on a minimal install, and which is extremely well-tested for the GPT case: parted.