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I've created a new version of the GPT page. The fundamentals are all there. Could use a chart of the things represented at each bit position. Microsoft's got a nice one on the external link indicated (which, by the way, is a great source).
-Scorpiuss, Aug 26 2005, 13:25 GMT
The GUID for an EFISys partition under the Partition Entries section is different than the one in the list of GUIDs. On the MS page linked at the bottom, the one given in the Partition Entries section is given.
-Scorpiuss
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was discussed back in 2014, but nothing was done as a result of that conversation. So I'll reopen it: This crazy table of every partition type GUID doesn't belong in the article, or the encyclopedia. As was correctly pointed out by
thumperward at the time,
WP:NOTMANUAL. (
WP:NOTDATABASE would also apply.)
Dsimic, the only other participant in the discussion at the time, countered with
WP:ITSUSEFUL, which as that link will show is equally irrelevant to the question of whether something belongs in the encyclopedia. All encyclopedic content should be useful to someone, but not all content useful to someone is encyclopedic.
I tend to be in agreement that the table(s!) detailing Windows support for GPT are also unnecessary, and could be replaced with a couple of sentences of prose, but I'll pick my battles. FeRDNYC ( talk) 23:17, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia consensus usually occurs implicitly. An edit has presumed consensus until it is disputed or reverted.– WP:EDITCON
LBA 1 is referred to as the "GPT header" in one section, and later as the "Partition table header". It may be beneficial to clarify this terminology shift, or use the same terms in both sections. 99.165.47.46 ( talk) 01:52, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
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I've created a new version of the GPT page. The fundamentals are all there. Could use a chart of the things represented at each bit position. Microsoft's got a nice one on the external link indicated (which, by the way, is a great source).
-Scorpiuss, Aug 26 2005, 13:25 GMT
The GUID for an EFISys partition under the Partition Entries section is different than the one in the list of GUIDs. On the MS page linked at the bottom, the one given in the Partition Entries section is given.
-Scorpiuss
This
was discussed back in 2014, but nothing was done as a result of that conversation. So I'll reopen it: This crazy table of every partition type GUID doesn't belong in the article, or the encyclopedia. As was correctly pointed out by
thumperward at the time,
WP:NOTMANUAL. (
WP:NOTDATABASE would also apply.)
Dsimic, the only other participant in the discussion at the time, countered with
WP:ITSUSEFUL, which as that link will show is equally irrelevant to the question of whether something belongs in the encyclopedia. All encyclopedic content should be useful to someone, but not all content useful to someone is encyclopedic.
I tend to be in agreement that the table(s!) detailing Windows support for GPT are also unnecessary, and could be replaced with a couple of sentences of prose, but I'll pick my battles. FeRDNYC ( talk) 23:17, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia consensus usually occurs implicitly. An edit has presumed consensus until it is disputed or reverted.– WP:EDITCON
LBA 1 is referred to as the "GPT header" in one section, and later as the "Partition table header". It may be beneficial to clarify this terminology shift, or use the same terms in both sections. 99.165.47.46 ( talk) 01:52, 17 March 2024 (UTC)