Fdisk

Many partition table manipulators are known as fdisk. Before they can be used, hard disks must be divided into one or more logical disks called partitions. This division is described in the partition table found in sector 0 of the disk.

=DOS fdisk=

All the many DOS operating systems, including MS-DOS, PC-DOS and DR-DOS use a partition table manipulator known as fdisk . The name derives from IBM s habit of calling hard drives fixed disks . DOS fdisk programs are only capable of creating the File Allocation Table type partitions that DOS uses.

A derivative of the MS-DOS fdisk was provided with Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me. Versions shipping with Windows 95B and higher were able to manipulate File Allocation Table partitions.

and has many advanced features.

=Linux fdisk=

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=OS/2 fdisk=

OS/2 shipped with two partition table managers up until version 4.0. These were the text mode fdisk and the GUI-based fdiskpm . The two have identical functionality, and can manipulate both FAT partitions and the more advanced HPFS partitions.

OS/2 versions 4.5 and higher (including EcomStation) can use the JFS filesystem as well as FAT and HPFS, and replace fdisk with the Logical Volume Manager (Linux) (LVM).

=External links=

*[http://home.pacbell.net/dbk4297/fdiskformat.html Step by step and easy to follow fdisk instructions page] *[http://www.23cc.com/free-fdisk/ Free FDISK, The official FDISK of FreeDOS] *[http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/partition-5.html Linux Partition HOWTO. Partitioning with fdisk] *[http://www.rt.com/man/fdisk.8.html Linux Programmer s Manual, FDISK(8)] *[http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgifdisk FreeBSD System Manager s Manual, FDISK(8)] *[http://uw713doc.sco.com/en/man/html.1M/fdisk.1M.html UnixWare 7, fdisk(1M)] *[http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/cgi-bin/manfdisk+1M Solaris ManPages, fdisk(1M)]