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sphns on April 10, 2006 - 8:36pm

pdisk is for APM maps only (Apple Partition map, the PPC map)

fdisk is for MBR maps only (Mast boot record, what’s on your camera flash disks

gpt is for gpt maps only.

HOWEVER, gpt does not understand the partition format that’s used for bootcamp. Using it to create/destroy partitions will not do what you want.

The only thing that will create bootcamp compatible partitions is diskutil under 10.4.6 or later…

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