Partitioning Drives


Editing partition tables
/sbin/parted <options>  [<device> [<command>]* ]
Options
-i   where necessary, prompts for user intervention
-s   never prompts for user intervention
Commands
select <device>               (/dev/hda, ...)
print [<part>]

mkpart <type> <start> <end>   (primary, logical, extended)
mkfs <part> <fs>              (ext2, linux-swap, FAT)

set <part> <flag> <state>     (boot, hidden, lba, lvm) (on, off)

rm <part>                     (delete partition)
quit
Usage
  • The displayed start and end values for adjacent partitions sometimes overlap.
/sbin/fdisk <device>   (menu-driven utility)
Creating filesystems
  • /sbin/mkfs.ext2 [-L <label>] <device>   (mke2fs)
  • /sbin/mkfs.ext3 [-L <label>] <device>   (mke2fs)
  • /sbin/mkswap -L <label>] <device>
  • /sbin/mkfs.vfat -F 32 [-n <label>] [-s <sectors-per-cluster>] <device>   (mkdosfs)
  • /sbin/mkfs.msdos -F 16 [-n <label>] [-s <sectors-per-cluster>] <device>   (mkdosfs)