Otherwise, you will get an error.Īs you can see, I created a 100MB partition. Don’t type in fractions here, only type in real numbers. Let’s say, you want to create a partition of size 100 MB, you just type in +100M here. The last sector number or size is the most important here. Now, enter the sector number on your hard drive from which you want the partition to start from. So, you can just leave it as it is unless you want to do something very specific. Usually, the default partition number is okay. Now, enter the partition number and press. To create a new partition with fdisk, press n and then press. Ĭreating and Removing Partitions with fdisk: To create a GPT partition table, press g and then press. To create a DOS partition table, press o and then press.
With fdisk, you can create both DOS and GPT partition table. In GPT, you can have more than 4 primary partitions. In a DOS partition table, you can’t create more than 4 primary partitions.
It is good for small size storage devices such as a USB thumb drive. DOS and GPT are the most common types of partition table.ĭOS is an old partition table scheme. You can press p and then press to list all the existing partitions of the storage/block device you opened with fdisk.Īs you can see in the screenshot below, I have a single partition.Ĭreating a New Partition Table with fdisk:Ī partition table holds information about the partition of your hard drive, SSD or USB thumb drive.
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In the next sections, I will show you how to use the fdisk command line interface to do common partitioning tasks. Now, open /dev/sdb with fdisk with the following command:Īs you can see, /dev/sdb storage/block device is opened with fdisk.
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