Some documentation about creation of partition tables (especially gpt)

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diff --git a/en/partitioning/partition/x86.xml b/en/partitioning/partition/x86.xml
index 274e587d1..dfcd44487 100644
--- a/en/partitioning/partition/x86.xml
+++ b/en/partitioning/partition/x86.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,25 @@
   <sect2 arch="x86"><title>Partitioning for &arch-title;</title>
 <para>
 
+If you are using a new harddisk (or want to wipe out the whole partition table
+of your disk), a new partition table needs to be created. The <quote>Guided
+partitioning</quote> does this automatically, but when partitioning manually,
+move the selection on the top-level entry of the disk and hit &enterkey;.
+That will create a new partition table on that disk. In expert mode, you will
+then be asked for the type of the partition table. Default for UEFI-based systems
+is <quote>gpt</quote>, while for the older BIOS world the default value
+is <quote>msdos</quote>. In a standard priority installation those defaults
+will be used automatically.
+
+</para><note><para>
+
+When a partition table with type <quote>gpt</quote> was selected (default for
+UEFI systems), a free space of 1 MB will automatically get created at the
+beginning of the disk. This is intended and required to embed the GRUB2
+bootloader.
+
+</para></note><para>
+
 If you have an existing other operating system such as DOS or Windows and
 you want to preserve that operating system while installing &debian;, you may
 need to resize its partition to free up space for the &debian; installation.