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How to identify SMI or EFI labelled disk

format -e cXtYdZ -> p -> fdisk

it will show partition 1 as

for EFI : EFI

for SMI : Solaris2

Feature	SMI	EFI
Partition numbers	0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7	0,1,2,3,4,5,6,8
Column labels when displaying partitions	Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks	Part Tag Flag First Sector Size Last Sector
fdisk, partition 1 is	Solaris 2	EFI