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Linux Pocket Guide
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Linux Pocket Guide

by Daniel J. Barrett
February 2004
Beginner content levelBeginner
200 pages
5h 40m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Partitioning and Formatting Disks

Disk-related operations like partitioning and formatting can be complex on Linux systems. Here are pointers to the programs you may need (start with their manpages).

parted, fdisk, or sfdisk

Partition a hard drive. Any of these programs will do: they simply have different user interfaces.

mkfs

Format a hard disk, i.e., create a new filesystem.

floppy

Format a floppy disk.

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