fdisk is a command-line utility for disk partitioning. It has been part of DOS, DR FlexOS, IBM OS/2, and early versions of Microsoft Windows, as well...
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fdisk (OS/2) IBM Proprietary software Yes OS/2 fdisk (Unix-like) util-linux project Free software Yes Unix-like FIPS Arno Schäfer Free software No MS-DOS...
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was defined jointly by GPT fdisk and GNU Parted developers. It is identified as type code 0x8300 in GPT fdisk. Hurd and GRUB use the same Linux...
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Multi-Environment Real-Time (redirect from UNIX-RTR)
Multi-Environment Real-Time (MERT), later renamed UNIX Real-Time (UNIX-RT), is a hybrid time-sharing and real-time operating system developed in the 1970s...
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Mkfs (category Unix file system-related software)
with a specific file system. The command is part of Unix and Unix-like operating systems. In Unix, a block storage device must be formatted with a file...
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Disk formatting (section Unix-like operating systems)
Microsoft Windows, and UNIX-based operating systems (such as BSD, Linux and macOS) this is normally done with a partition editor, such as fdisk, GNU Parted, or...
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DEC's DIGITAL Command Language (DCL) in OpenVMS and RSX-11, the various Unix shells (sh, ksh, csh, tcsh, zsh, Bash, etc.), CP/M's CCP, DOS' COMMAND.COM...
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Gpart (category Unix file system-related software)
It gives you the information you need to manually re-create them (using fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, etc.). The guessed partition table can also be written...
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BusyBox (category Unix software)
BusyBox is a software suite that provides several Unix utilities in a single executable file. It runs in a variety of POSIX environments such as Linux...
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(legacy) colcrt colrm column ctrlaltdel delpart dmesg eject fallocate fdformat fdisk fincore findfs findmnt flock fsck fsck.cramfs fsck.minix fsfreeze fstrim...
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NetBSD (category Lightweight Unix-like systems)
NetBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). It was the first open-source BSD descendant...
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and high memory area. Supports up to four DOS primary partitions, however FDISK cannot create more than one primary partition. Third-party tools allowed...
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open-source software portal List of disk partitioning software util-linux: fdisk cfdisk sfdisk gpart gparted FIPS Master Boot Record manager Brian C. Lane...
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to which the operating system will be installed (using a program such as fdisk or cfdisk); creates the appropriate file systems on the various partitions;...
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Data recovery convert File Allocation Table Design of the FAT file system fdisk PC DOS 7.10 Format32 The directory entries get filled with 0x00 since MS-DOS...
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Toybox (category Unix software)
Toybox is a free and open-source software implementation of over 200 Unix command line utilities such as ls, cp, and mv. The Toybox project was started...
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DragonFly BSD (category Unix variants)
DragonFly BSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system forked from FreeBSD 4.8. Matthew Dillon, an Amiga developer in the late 1980s and early...
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filesystem blocks. In Linux, disk sector size can be determined with sudo fdisk -l | grep "Sector size" and block size can be determined with sudo blockdev...
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2015-04-06. Retrieved 2015-01-19. Buttles, Wayne (1994). "DosLynx Beta Hype". FDISK.COM. Archived from the original on 2010-12-03. Retrieved 2012-01-13. "Sound...
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irritations with his early experiments with Linux, such as the lack of a working fdisk (he would later write one), the need to use multiple FTP repositories to...
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misleading to associate drive letters with partitions inside FDISK. Also, the fact that DR-DOS FDISK does not only partition but also format freshly created...
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3.31 and higher except for a possibly wrong file system type display in FDISK. QNX partition IDs 07h, 08h, 09h, 4Dh (77), 4Eh (78), 4Fh (79), as well...
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List of DOS commands (section FDISK)
releases. The FDISK command manipulates hard disk partition tables. The name derives from IBM's habit of calling hard drives fixed disks. FDISK has the ability...
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E2fsprogs (category Unix file system-related software)
Free and open-source software portal mkfs dd — convert and copy a file fdisk — examine and write partition table fsck — file system check mkisofs — make...
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Disk Block Timeline of DOS operating systems History of Microsoft Windows FDISK "Archive:SuSE Linux 6.4". openSUSE wiki. Retrieved 2017-06-28. "SUSE LINUX...
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ATTRIB BACKUP CHKDSK COMMAND DEBUG DETACH DISKCOMP DISKCOPY EDLIN EXE2BIN FC FDISK FIND FORMAT GRAFTABL GRAPHICS GWBASIC HEADPARK INSTALLX JOIN LABEL LINK4...
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and the Disk Management console in Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista. Use FDISK from a Windows ME Emergency Boot Disk to avoid. Depends on CPU arch. For...
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diskcomp diskcopy doskey dpath eautil echo endlocal erase exit extproc fdisk fdiskpm find for format fsaccess goto graftabl help if join keyb keys label...
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DSKPROBE tool refers to type 0x06 as BigFAT, whereas some older versions of FDISK described it as BIGDOS. Technically, it is known as FAT16B. Since older...
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timestamp. Optional 32-bit disk signature. IBM PC DOS 2.0 introduced the FDISK utility to set up and maintain MBR partitions. When a storage device has...
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