Centos Server Guide

Using Linux fdisk and parted commands / Utilities

The Linux fdisk partitioning utility that runs with the fdisk command. Almost every Linux distribution contains the command fdisk / utility.

Some Linux distributions also includes a utility called "parted" (GNU parted - partition editor). I parted utility to perform simple typing run parted command.

for basic Linux partitioning tasks, use the fdisk command / program.

No, do more advanced Linux partitioning tasks, like resizing a partition or partitions, copying, use the utility splits .

If you run Linux split command and the tool does not start, you can download the program and distributed to install it on your Linux distribution.

Some Linux distributions also use other tools for partitioning, especially during the (own), the installation routine.

"Disk Druid" Hard disk partitioning GUI tool used to Red Hat and Fedora

installation routine Red Hat (Linux and Fedora), allows you to use a partitioning tool called Disk Druid to partition your hard disk (a ).

disk druid is actually a GUI interface (front) to melt the utility. When this task with disk druid, such as creating a partition divided the utility actually uses the "background" to achieve the division of tasks.

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So, download the Fedora or have it mailed to you very cheap - if you explicitly need to learn how to use Red Hat.
From "Learning for Linux System Administration perspective," Red Hat Linux and Fedora Linux distributions are almost identical.

options available in the "Disk Setup" screen (Disk Druid in a Red Hat installation routine) do not currently use all the features parted utility.

For example, divide the utility can be run on the Linux command line (simply by typing the divorced and pressing the Enter key) to change the size (increase or decrease) the size of Linux partition, and you can not do this with Disk Druid (from Red Hat installation routine ).

Linux hard disk partitioning concepts and commands covered here relates to: Red Hat Linux and Fedora Linux to run fdisk, parted, and Disk Druid - and also apply to Ubuntu, Slackware, Debian and other Linux distributions for fdisk and parted.