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This is an old revision of fdisk made by coolpup on 2010-12-19 08:56:58.
Fdisk displays or updates the master boot record (M.B.R.) in the first sector (sector 0) of a disk that uses the MBR style of partitioning. It does not recognize GUID Partition Table (GPT) and it is not designed for large partitions: use the more advanced parted GNU Parted.
http://linux.die.net/man/8/fdisk
Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK Change partition table fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK List partition table(s) fdisk -s PARTITION Give partition size(s) in blocks fdisk -v Give fdisk version Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7 -u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units -b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors
