https://blog.khmersite.net/tags/cfdisk/ Recent content in Cfdisk on Kenno's Open Note https://blog.khmersite.net/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E https://blog.khmersite.net/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E Hugo -- 0.154.0 en Wed, 20 May 2020 22:11:47 +1000 https://blog.khmersite.net/p/create-disk-partition-with-gnu-parted/ Wed, 20 May 2020 22:11:47 +1000 https://blog.khmersite.net/p/create-disk-partition-with-gnu-parted/ <p>My favourite tool to create disk partitions on Linux is <code>c[fg]disk</code>. <code>cfdisk</code> used to create MBR based partition, and <code>cgdisk</code> is for GPT one.</p> <p>Today, I want to learn to use another tool called GNU Parted.</p> <p>After plugging an external disk, we can use <strong>udiskctl</strong> command to identify the disk device.</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-console" data-lang="console"><span style="display:flex;"><span># udisksctl status </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>MODEL REVISION SERIAL DEVICE </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>-------------------------------------------------------------------------- </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB EMT01B6Q S21MNXAG919308T sda </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>ST2000DM001-1ER164 HP51 Z4Z46TMA sdb </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>ST2000DM001-1ER164 HP51 Z4Z46W3E sdc </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB EMT01B6Q S21MNXAG919312Y sdd </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250G 0309 533144424E4541443837343335324120 sde </span></span></code></pre></div><p>The last Samsung SSD 840 (/dev/sde) is the one that I&rsquo;m going to work with.</p>