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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Fdisk Tool

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Fdisk Tool

Command line disk partitioning application in Linux. It is powerful and has a very simple user interface.
fdisk /dev/sdb
On command line, starts fdisk against second available SCSI disk. "sda" is the first SCSI disk, "sdc" is the third SCSI disk etc. VMware ESX Server is installed on /dev/sda, and the external storage is /dev/sdb, and maybe some others too.
p
Fdisk subcommand, prints the current partition table on current disk.
d
Fdisk subcommand, deletes an existing partition. Enter the partition number to delete. It is recommended to printout the current partition table before deleting anything.
n
Fdisk subcommand, creates a new partition. Select partition type (primary, extended, or logical). Almost always you should use the default starting cylinder. For size, enter "+NNNNNm", where NNNNN is the size in megabytes.
t
Fdisk subcommand, change partition type (id). By default fdisk creates ext2 type partitions. We might also want to use id "fb", the vmfs type, or some other type.
w
Fdisk subcommand, writes the current partition table to disk. If you don't get any errors, you don't have to reboot. If you get errors at this point, the new partition table is used only after next system boot.

     
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