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Showing posts with label partitions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label partitions. Show all posts

Sunday, July 31, 2011

List, create, delete and set partition type for primary, extended, and logical partitions

List partitions
#fdisk -l

Create partition
#fdisk /dev/vda
(vda can be replaced by sda if its not virtual machine)
Then press
n
After that select e or p for extended or primary partition type.
Then give appropriate size
Finally type
w
Then type
p
to check partition table where you can see the newly created partition.