7 Linux fdisk Command Examples to Manage Hard Disk Partition
Sham Arsiwala
On Linux distributions, fdisk is the best tool to manage disk partitions. fdisk is a text based utility.
Using fdisk you can create a new partition, delete an existing partition, or change existing partition.
Using fidsk you are allowed to create a maximum of four primary partition, and any number of logical partitions, based on the size of the disk.
Keep in mind that any single partition requires a minimum size of 40MB.
In this article, let us review how to use fdisk command using practical examples.
link.: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/09/linux-fdisk/
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Tejas Barot
On Linux distributions, fdisk is the best tool to manage disk partitions. fdisk is a text based utility.
Using fdisk you can create a new partition, delete an existing partition, or change existing partition.
Using fidsk you are allowed to create a maximum of four primary partition, and any number of logical partitions, based on the size of the disk.
Keep in mind that any single partition requires a minimum size of 40MB.
In this article, let us review how to use fdisk command using practical examples.
For GUI Lovers there is a GUI Utility is also available for partitioning.
GUI Utility is GParted.
To Use GParted go through following link :-
http://partedmagic.com/documentation/119-using-gparted.html
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Description: QTParted is a Partition Magic clone written in C++ using the Qt toolkit.
QtParted is back among the living! After seeing the message about QtParted's death, the Ark Linux team have decided to continue maintaining it.
Very special thanks to: First and foremost, special thanks to Vanni Brutto for starting the project and keeping it going over the first couple of years. First of all we want to thank Andrew Clausen, the author of parted, for his support, and the present parted maintainers for their ongoing good work. For more info about parted and libparted: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted
We must to thank also François Dupoux twho chose to help with "all this crazy stuff" :)
At the end Vanni wants to thank http://www.suse.it for sending him a copy of their suse 8.2 distribution.
Warning: QTParted is still in development, if you experienced any kind of problem with latest release please try also the CVS version and the previous version.
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There is also 1 more utility is there called parted using command :-
you can even check the below linkDescription: QTParted is a Partition Magic clone written in C++ using the Qt toolkit.
QtParted is back among the living! After seeing the message about QtParted's death, the Ark Linux team have decided to continue maintaining it.
Very special thanks to: First and foremost, special thanks to Vanni Brutto for starting the project and keeping it going over the first couple of years. First of all we want to thank Andrew Clausen, the author of parted, for his support, and the present parted maintainers for their ongoing good work. For more info about parted and libparted: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted
We must to thank also François Dupoux twho chose to help with "all this crazy stuff" :)
At the end Vanni wants to thank http://www.suse.it for sending him a copy of their suse 8.2 distribution.
Warning: QTParted is still in development, if you experienced any kind of problem with latest release please try also the CVS version and the previous version.
To Read more about parted :-
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-disk-storage.html#s1-disk-storage-parted
Partition tools in Linux :-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disk_partitioning_सॉफ्टवेर