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Old 03-19-2009, 03:03 AM   #1
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Question Is there a way to partition with fdisk and specify size in MB?

I was wondering how do you partition a disk with fdisk and specify megabytes?
 
Old 03-19-2009, 04:14 AM   #2
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use +xMB when you set the partition size
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Old 03-19-2009, 04:23 AM   #3
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use +xMB when you set the partition size
So something like this?

fdisk /dev/sda

n

p

1

+512MB

w
 
Old 03-19-2009, 05:30 AM   #4
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I always take the easy way out and use cfdisk.
 
  


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