how to use the command parted

farooqmncl · 04-25-2009, 05:27 PM

hi,
every time i am using fdisk command to create the 16 partition. how to create the 32 partition in parted command?

farooq

jhwilliams · 04-25-2009, 06:07 PM

From http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partition...n_types-1.html:

Quote:

16 Hidden DOS 16-bit FAT >=32M
32 NOS

What are you talking about?

Also, I think fdisk is a safer and easier to use utility, but that's just me.

If you don't like fdisk for some reason, check out gparted -- a GNOME front end for parted. That's substantially more intuitive.

Code:

sudo apt-get install gparted