Raspberry PI and gpt

[3igHankCh0w]

I have been searching to see if one can use gpt in place of an msdos when partitioning the sdcard for the raspberry pi, the reason I ask, is when using gdisk to partition the sdcard, I do not have the option of FAT32, and when using gparted, if I set the boot flag, it changes to EFI. Sorry if this has already been addressed, but my searches have proved fruitless.

[moonman]

First time I hear about such a problem. And AFAIK no, you can't. Have you tried fdisk?

[WarheadsSE]

The Pi's bootloader does not currently understand GPT, AFAIK

[krabat]

Regarding gdisk and gparted I wonder whether there's some misconception:

Both are about partitioning, not about (high-level) formatting. Thus you may set GPT partition types such as "Linux filesystem" or "EFI System [partition]" and partition attributes such as "legacy BIOS bootable" (sgdisk only afaik) but never particular filesystems such as FAT32.

[moonman]

GPT partition table is not the same thing as MBR. You can set types in both. And yes, these tools are for partitioning, not for formatting. One needs to user mkfs.vfat to format partition as fat32