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Old 06-10-2010, 06:06 AM   #1
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Smile SFDISK partitioning


Hello Everyone,

I know how to create the partition using fdisk command.
But I want to create one partition /dev/sda11 of size 10gb using sfdisk command.
But don't know how to create the partition of my kind using sfdisk command

So please help me in creating the partition using sfdisk command.

Thanks
 
Old 06-10-2010, 11:13 AM   #2
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sfdisk has four (main) uses: list the size of a partition, list the partitions on a device, check the partitions on a device, and - very dangerous - repartition a device.
http://linux.die.net/man/8/sfdisk
 
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For partitioning, I would recommend cfdisk.
 
  


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