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Fdisk is a command-line utility for disk partitioning, which has been part of DOS, DR FlexOS, IBM OS/2, and early versions of Microsoft Windows, as well as certain ports of FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD and macOS for compatibility reasons.
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It is a dialogue-driven program for creation and manipulation of partition tables, which understand GPT, MBR, Sun, SGI and BSD partition tables.
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It can also optimize the disk layout for a 4K-sector size.
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It allows Linux to have four primary partitions
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and is used to create and delete partitions on the hard drive in earlier versions of MS-DOS and Windows.
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It is also used to print the partition table, create a new partition, and make the first partition bootable.
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Description top is a dialog-driven program for creation and manipulation of partition tables, which understand GPT, MBR, Sun, SGI and BSD partition tables. It provides a rich interface for scripts to print disk layouts, and is mostly designed for humans. It supports GPT, MBR, Sun, SGI and BSD partition tables, and can optimize the disk layout for a 4K-sector size.
fdisk(8) - Linux manual page
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fdisk is a command-line utility for disk partitioning . It has been part of DOS , DR FlexOS , IBM OS/2 , and early versions of Microsoft Windows , as well as certain ports of FreeBSD , NetBSD , OpenBSD , DragonFly BSD and macOS for compatibility reasons
fdisk - Wikipedia
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This section explains how to partition a hard drive with the fdisk utility, which allows Linux to have four primary partitions. It explains how to print the partition table, create a new partition, and make the first partition bootable. It also provides a sample partition table and a discussion of the different types of partitions available.
Partitioning with fdisk
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fdisk is a dialogue-driven command-line utility that creates and manipulates partition tables and partitions on a hard disk. Hard disks are divided into partitions and this division is described in the partition table.
fdisk - ArchWiki
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Computer dictionary definition for what fdisk means including related links, information, and terms.
What is Fdisk?
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Download GPT fdisk for free. GPT fdisk is a disk partitioning tool loosely modeled on Linux fdisk, but used for modifying GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks. The ...
GPT fdisk download | SourceForge.net
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fdisk is a Linux program that only works with MBR partitions. parted is another partitioning program that works on MBR and GPT partitions.
fdisk Information
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