GUID Partitions (Globally Unique Idenitifier Partiitions)

• no primary, extended or logical partions
• supports gigantic disk and partion sizes
• 128 GPT (GUID Partition Table) partitions per disk
• fault tolerance - stores copy of partition table on first and last sectors of disk
• GPT provides cyclical redundancy checks (CRC) of partion table
• GPT assigns unique ids to each disk and partition
• utility called gdisk 
• -->convert MBR partition table to GPT partition table
• -->gdisk /dev/sda
• ------>many of the same commands are the same as fdisk
• ------>type of partition enter: linux
• ------>delete partition
• ------------>rm <partition>