In Windows XP there is a way to partition a disk without having to use the Command Line Interface. If you go to Start then right click on My Computer and go to Manage, then Disk Management, a graphical user interface will show you the layout of your hard drive. Then you can right click on the hard drive you want to partition and then select New Partition (or New Primary Drive or something like that). Then just follow the instructions and you can partition the disk however you want.
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The Fdisk command is used to change hard disk partitions in DOS.
FORMAT is a Microsoft command-line utility that is used for disk formatting. The function of the command prompt is to format a partition of the file system.
fdisk is a name shared by many programs on multiple platforms. The purpose of these programs is to partition and format a disk.
as root: df -h to see the disks and partitions mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1 Where sdb1 is the disk and partition you want to format. This will format sdb1 partition to ext3.
Almost all Unix/Linux systems use the 'df' command to find out how big the partition is, how much is in use, and the percentage of the system in use. This command must be used in a command window.
dsk cnv
GPT (GUID Partition Table) this partition style is recommended for disks larger than 2TB, or disks that are used in Itanium computers.
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Go to control panel - administrative tools - disk management. There will be all the tools in a handy console to format and partition your hard drive.
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