[Info-vax] questions on initialize/gpt

[Dirk Munk]

I just read the chapter on the DCL initialize command, and there it says:

 >> When /GPT is specified, the system file [000000]GPT.SYS is created. 
GPT.SYS contains partition/boot information needed by the IA64 console 
software. (GPT is an abbreviation for GUID Partition Table, where GUID 
stands for Global Unique Identifier.) <<

That seems to suggest the disk gets a industry standard GUID Partition 
Table, or not?

But then you would expect to be able to take a partition on an existing 
  disk with a GPT label, and format it with ODS-2 or ODS-5, but I can't 
find any information on that.

What is going on here?