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I am running Ubuntu 13.10. Some links shows that:

If you use an MS-DOS partition table (or MBR), you can only have up to four primary/extended partitions.

If you use a GUID partition table (GPT) with default settings, you can have up to 128 partitions.

How do I find out whether my disk uses MBR or GPT from the terminal in Ubuntu?.

So that it would be easy for me while creating partitions.

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answered 2 Years ago looweets · Accepted Answer

To find whether your disk is GPT or MBR in ubuntu,you have to install gdisk utility.

sudo apt-get install gdisk

Then run the below command,

sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda

If the output of the above command shows like this,then you have MBR disk,

Partition table scan:

MBR: MBR only

BSD: not present

APM: not present

GPT: not present

If the output shows like this then you have GPT disk,

Partition table scan:

MBR: protective

BSD: not present

APM: not present

GPT: present