fdisk — Create or Modify Fixed-Disk Partition Table

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/fdisk [-o offset][-s size][-P fill-patt][-S geom-file]
  [-w | r | d | n | I | B | t | T | g | G | R][-F fdisk-file][[-v]
  -W {fdisk-file | -}][-h][-b masterboot][-A id : act : bhead : bsect :
  bcyl : ehead : esect : ecyl : rsect : numsect] [-D id : act : bhead :
  bsect : bcyl : ehead: esect : ecyl : rsect : numsect] rdevice

Description

Many IA (Intel Architecture)-based systems come preinstalled with other operating systems such as MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT, OS/2, or another third-party's implementation of UNIX.

The preinstalled operating system often uses the entire disk on the system (on one fdisk partition) and contains data that you don't want to lose. ...

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