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2. GUID Partition Table - Wikipedia

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   Details of GPT support on UNIX and Unix-like operating systems OS family Version or edition Platform Read and write support Boot support Note FreeBSD: Since 7.0 IA-32, x86-64, ARM: Yes Yes In a hybrid configuration, both GPT and MBR partition identifiers may be used. Linux: Most of the x86 Linux distributions Fedora 8+ and Ubuntu 8.04+ [18] IA ...

3. Partition type - Wikipedia

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   The partition type (or partition ID) in a partition's entry in the partition table inside a master boot record (MBR) is a byte value intended to specify the file system the partition contains or to flag special access methods used to access these partitions (e.g. special CHS mappings, LBA access, logical mapped geometries, special driver access, hidden partitions, secured or encrypted file ...

4. Master boot record - Wikipedia

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   A MBR program may interact with the user to determine which partition on which drive should boot, and may transfer control to the MBR of a different drive. Other MBR code contains a list of disk locations (often corresponding to the contents of files in a filesystem) of the remainder of the boot manager code to load and to execute. (The first ...

5. List of default file systems - Wikipedia

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   List of partition IDs (MBR) Master Boot Record (MBR) GUID Partition Table (GPT) Apple Partition Map; Amiga Rigid Disk Block; Timeline of DOS operating systems;

6. Disk partitioning - Wikipedia

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   The term is most commonly associated with the MBR partition table of a Master Boot Record (MBR) in PCs, but it may be used generically to refer to other formats that divide a disk drive into partitions, such as: GUID Partition Table (GPT), Apple partition map (APM), [12] or BSD disklabel. [13]

7. Boot sector - Wikipedia

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   The MBR sector may contain code to locate the active partition and invoke its volume boot record. A volume boot record (VBR) is the first sector of a data storage device that has not been partitioned, or the first sector of an individual partition on a data storage device that has been partitioned.