FDISK

If you want to convert an MBR disk in place, you could look into GPT fdisk, which is an fdisk-like tool for manipulating GPT partitions.

To see the new disks, you can run fdisk -l and optionally use fdisk to create partition on them.

Briefly, though, most x86 systems use master boot record (MBR) partitions, which are typically created with a program called fdisk.

To see the available devices, use the command fdisk -l.

This could be a physical disk or some subset of the physical disk space such as an FDISK partition.

Detailed instructions for this process using the fdisk utility are available on the Beagle Board community page.

Using your favorite partitioner (fdisk, parted, gparted), create a new partition for LVM usage.

Remove all SD card partitions by creating an empty partition table using fdisk command 'o'.

Create a Linux Native partition, write the partition table, and exit the (c)fdisk program.

The GPT fdisk program is a GPT-only partitioning program modeled after Linux fdisk.

Note, however, that fdisk doesn't align subsequent partitions automatically.

You can, however, align partitions properly with any version of fdisk.

I create a partition on it using fdisk, then create a filesystem on that partition using mkfs.

The fdisk console command is used to create and manipulate partitions.

To return to RHEL5, partition information can be gleaned using fdisk or parted (see Listing 5).

Listing 1 shows how to use the fdisk command to display the partitions and geometry of an IDE hard drive with SATA attachment.

You can see the nominal geometry on a Linux system using either the parted or fdisk tools.

fdisk is a handy partitioning utility for Linux.

We can see that fdisk properly reports the RAID devices for all our partitions.

The GPT fdisk utilities are useful only with GPT disks.

In Listing 1, note that fdisk prints a warning about the nominal position for the end of cylinder 1024.

Listing 3 shows that fdisk does have the same starting and ending sector as parted.

By default, fdisk creates a "type 83" partition, which means Linux.

Through util-linux-ng 2. 17, fdisk does not offer any direct support for 8-sector alignment of partitions.

Using fdisk, you should use the t command to set the partition's type code to 8e.

Type "m" at any time to display a table of fdisk commands.

The first step sets up traditional fdisk viewable partitions, while the second disklabel step sets up OpenBSD subpartitions.

In GPT fdisk, change the partition type code to EF02.

First, here's how to create them the command-line way, with fdisk.

You can use the fdisk tool to write the label onto the virtual disk.

When you execute fdisk, you must point it toward a device.

GPT fdisk is very new and immature, however, so you should use it with caution.