
This can be demonstrated with the help of following given output. ~]# fdisk /dev/sdaĪfter entering in command mode, now press “ n” command to create a new partition under /dev/sda with specific size. Type the following command to enter into command mode of specific hard disk. Then you must be in fdisk command mode of /dev/sda.
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If you’ve free space left on one of your device say /dev/sda and would like to create a new partition under it. Warning : Be careful, while performing this step, because using option ‘ d‘ will completely delete partition from system and may lost all data in partition.

You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root The next reboot or after you run partprobe(8) or kpartx(8) WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy. ~]# fdisk /dev/sdaĬalling ioctl() to re-read partition table. This can be easily understood from the below output. The new changes would only take place after next reboot of system. Enter ‘ w‘ to write table to disk and exit after making new alterations to partition table. dev/sda4) disk and shows free space in partition table. Suppose I enter number ‘ 4‘ here, then it will delete partition number ‘ 4‘ (i.e. As I enter ‘ d‘, it will prompt me to enter partition number that I want to delete from /dev/sda hard disk. Next, enter ‘ d‘ to delete any given partition name from the system. You must be in fdisk command mode to do this. If you would like to delete a specific partition (i.e /dev/sda9) from the specific hard disk such as /dev/sda. As I enter ‘ p‘, it will print the specific /dev/sda partition table. ~]# fdisk /dev/sdaįrom the command mode, enter ‘ p‘ instead of ‘ m‘ as we did earlier. To print all partition table of hard disk, you must be on command mode of specific hard disk say /dev/sda. ~]# fdisk /dev/sdaĬommand (m for help): 4. After, I enter ‘ m‘ on the screen, you will see the all available options for fdisk that you can be used on the /dev/sda device. Type ‘ m‘ to see the list of all available commands of fdisk which can be operated on /dev/sda hard disk. Switch off the mode (command 'c') and change display units to WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. The following command will give you output similar to below. Simply use the following command by mentioning the hard disk name such as /dev/sda as shown below.

If you would like to view all commands which are available for fdisk. If you’ve different device names, simple write device name as /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc. For example, the following command will display all disk partitions of device /dev/sda.

To view all partitions of specific hard disk use the option ‘ -l‘ with device name.

For example: /dev/sda, /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc. The partitions are displayed by their device’s names. The ‘ -l‘ argument stand for (listing all partitions) is used with fdisk command to view all available partitions on Linux. The following basic command list all existing disk partition on your system. Caution – Don’t Create, Delete or Modify Partitions.
