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Old 01-18-2013, 05:59 AM   #1
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Partition toolsdifference


Can anyone tell me the differences of
1.fdisk
2.cdisk
3.sfdisk
4.parted
 
Old 01-18-2013, 03:55 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by yashfire007 View Post
Can anyone tell me the differences of
1.fdisk
2.cdisk
3.sfdisk
4.parted
google it and check in wikipedia.
 
Old 01-19-2013, 02:27 AM   #3
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From the fdisk man page: "There are several *fdisk programs around. Each has its problems and strengths. Try them in the order cfdisk, fdisk, sfdisk. (Indeed, cfdisk is a beautiful program that has strict requirements on the partition tables it accepts, and produces high quality partition tables. Use it if you can. fdisk is a buggy program that does fuzzy things - usually it happens to produce reasonable results. Its single advantage is that it has some support for BSD disk labels and other non-DOS partition tables. Avoid it if you can. sfdisk is for hackers only -- the user interface is terrible, but it is more correct than fdisk and more powerful than both fdisk and cfdisk. Moreover, it can be used noninteractively.)"

parted is able to handle GPT and MBR disks, it can be scripted and there is a very easy to use graphical user interface, gparted.
 
  


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