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pinga123 02-23-2011 04:53 AM
Fdisk v/s parted
 
Just started understanding linux filesystem and partition utilities.

I was going though some video tutorials by CBT nuggets and the author was cursing fdisk as fuzzy tool and recommending to use parted instead.

In our job environment i have seen almost every one using fdisk utility for partitioning and other filesystem related tasks.

I would be glad if some one put light on this.

TobiSGD 02-23-2011 05:48 AM
I think it is up to personal preferences. You can use fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk and parted. The only advantage of parted is, AFAIK, that it can move and resize partitions, but for "normal tasks" the others are also fine.

goossen 02-25-2011 05:32 AM
From fdisk manual page:
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fdisk doesn’t understand GUID Partition Table (GPT) and it is not designed for large partitions. In particular case use more advanced GNU parted(8).

pinga123 02-27-2011 09:24 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by goossen (Post 4270763)
From fdisk manual page:
How big?

geovg 02-28-2011 04:35 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by pinga123 (Post 4273446)
How big?
you can't use fdisk for drives greater than 2TB size. you need to use parted utility for that.


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