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自动选题[tech]: 20210707 How to Know if Your System Uses MBR or GPT Partitioning [on Windows and Linux]

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+How to Know if Your System Uses MBR or GPT Partitioning [on Windows and Linux]
+======
+
+Knowing the correct partitioning scheme of your disk could be crucial when you are installing Linux or any other operating system.
+
+There are two popular partitioning schemes; the older MBR and the newer GPT. Most computers use GPT these days.
+
+While creating the live or bootable USB, some tools (like [Rufus][1]) ask you the type of disk partitioning in use. If you choose GPT with an MBR disk, the bootable USB might not work.
+
+In this tutorial, I’ll show various methods to check the disk partitioning scheme on Windows and Linux systems.
+
+### Check whether your system uses MBR or GPT on Windows systems
+
+While there are several ways to check the disk partitioning scheme in Windows including command line ones, I’ll stick with the GUI methods.
+
+Press the Windows button and search for ‘disk’ and then click on “**Create and format disk partitions**“.
+
+![][2]
+
+In here, **right-click on the disk** for which you want to check the partitioning scheme. In the right-click context menu, **select Properties**.
+
+![Right click on the disk and select properties][3]
+
+In the Properties, go to **Volumes** tab and look for **Partition style**.
+
+![In Volumes tab, look for Partition style][4]
+
+As you can see in the screenshot above, the disk is using GPT partitioning scheme. For some other systems, it could show MBR or MSDOS partitioning scheme.
+
+Now you know how to check disk partitioning scheme in Windows. In the next section, you’ll learn to do the same in Linux.
+
+### Check whether your system uses MBR or GPT on Linux
+
+There are several ways to check whether a disk uses MBR or GPT partitioning scheme in Linux as well. This includes commands and GUI tools.
+
+Let me first show the command line method and then I’ll show a couple of GUI methods.
+
+#### Check disk partitioning scheme in Linux command line
+
+The command line method should work on all Linux distributions.
+
+Open a terminal and use the following command with sudo:
+
+```
+sudo parted -l
+```
+
+The above command is actually a CLI-based [partitioning manager in Linux][5]. With the option -l, it lists the disks on your system along with the details about those disks. It includes partitioning scheme information.
+
+In the output, look for the line starting with **Partition Table**:
+
+![][6]
+
+In the above screenshot, the disk has GPT partitioning scheme. For **MBR**, it would show **msdos**.
+
+You learned the command line way. But if you are not comfortable with the terminal, you can use graphical tools as well.
+
+#### Checking disk information with GNOME Disks tool
+
+Ubuntu and many other GNOME-based distributions have a built-in graphical tool called Disks that lets you handle the disks in your system.
+
+You can use the same tool for getting the partition type of the disk as well.
+
+![][7]
+
+#### Checking disk information with Gparted graphical tool
+
+If you don’t have the option to use GNOME Disks tool, no worries. There are other tools available.
+
+One such popular tool is Gparted. You should find it in the repositories of most Linux distributions. If not installed already, [install Gparted][8] using your distribution’s software center or [package manager][9].
+
+In Gparted, select the disk and from the menu select **View->Device** Information. It will start showing the disk information in the bottom-left area and this information includes the partitioning scheme.
+
+![][10]
+
+See, not too complicated, was it? Now you know multiple ways of figuring our whether the disks in your system use GPT or MBR partitioning scheme.
+
+On the same note, I would also like to mention that sometimes disks also have a [hybrid partitioning scheme][11]. This is not common and most of the time it is either MBR or GPT.
+
+Questions? Suggestions? Please leave a comment below.
+
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+via: https://itsfoss.com/check-mbr-or-gpt/
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+作者：[Abhishek Prakash][a]
+选题：[lujun9972][b]
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+[1]: https://rufus.ie/en_US/
+[2]: https://i1.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/disc-management-windows.png?resize=800%2C561&ssl=1
+[3]: https://i1.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/gpt-check-windows-1.png?resize=800%2C603&ssl=1
+[4]: https://i1.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/gpt-check-windows-2-1.png?resize=800%2C600&ssl=1
+[5]: https://itsfoss.com/partition-managers-linux/
+[6]: https://i0.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/check-if-mbr-or-gpt-in-Linux.png?resize=800%2C446&ssl=1
+[7]: https://i0.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/check-if-mbr-or-gpt-in-Linux-gui.png?resize=800%2C548&ssl=1
+[8]: https://itsfoss.com/gparted/
+[9]: https://itsfoss.com/package-manager/
+[10]: https://i2.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/check-disk-partitioning-scheme-linux-gparted.jpg?resize=800%2C555&ssl=1
+[11]: https://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html