Understanding fc17 partitioning

[Alan Cox]

> Is there a command-line gparted or is it no longer possible to edit
> the partition table from the command-line?

I've not really looked

> Why is there a mixture of old fdisk and new GPT disk layout?

GPT is the newer disk format for the EFI world and even bigger disks. It
fixes most of the insanity of the every hacked up BIOS format from the
past. A lot of older BIOSes don't understand it however and may not boot
from it.

For the mapping see

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/

Alan