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FDISK(8) System Manager's Manual FDISK(8) NAME fdisk - partition a hard disk [IBM] SYNOPSIS fdisk [-hm] [-sn] [file] OPTIONS -h # Number of disk heads is m -s # Number of sectors per track is n EXAMPLES fdisk /dev/c0d0 # Examine disk partitions fdisk -h9 /dev/c0d0 # Examine disk with 9 heads DESCRIPTION When fdisk starts up, it reads in the partition table and displays it. It then presents a menu to allow the user to modify partitions, store the partition table on a file, or load it from a file. Partitions can be marked as MINIX 3, DOS or other, as well as active or not. Using fdisk is self-explanatory. However, be aware that repartitioning a disk will cause information on it to be lost. Rebooting the system im- mediately is mandatory after changing partition sizes and parameters. MINIX 3, XENIX, PC-IX, and MS-DOS all have different partition number- ing schemes. Thus when using multiple systems on the same disk, be careful. Note that MINIX 3, unlike MS-DOS , cannot access the last sector in a partition with an odd number of sectors. The reason that odd partition sizes do not cause a problem with MS-DOS is that MS-DOS allocates disk space in units of 512-byte sectors, whereas MINIX 3 uses 1K blocks. Fdisk has a variety of other features that can be seen by typing h. Fdisk normally knows the geometry of the device by asking the driver. You can use the -h and -s options to override the numbers found. SEE ALSO part(8). FDISK(8)