After you’ve installed brand new disks on your server, you have to use
tools like fdisk to partition it accordingly.
Following are the 5 typical actions (commands) that you can execute
inside fdisk.
• n – New Partition creation
• d – Delete an existing partition
• p – Print Partition Table
• w – Write the changes to the partition table. i.e save.
• q – Quit the fdisk utility
Create a partition
In the following example, I created a /dev/sda1 primary partition.
# fdisk /dev/sda
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 287.0 GB, 287005343744 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 34893 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
Command (m for help): n
Command action
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p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-34893, default 1):
Using default value 1
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-34893,default 34893):
Using default value 34893
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
Verify that the partition got created successfully
# fdisk /dev/sda
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 287.0 GB, 287005343744 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 34893 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 34893 280277991 83 Linux
Command (m for help): q
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