Create Disk Partition With GNU Parted

My favourite tool to create disk partitions on Linux is c[fg]disk. cfdisk used to create MBR based partition, and cgdisk is for GPT one. Today, I want to learn to use another tool called GNU Parted. After plugging an external disk, we can use udiskctl command to identify the disk device. # udisksctl status MODEL REVISION SERIAL DEVICE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB EMT01B6Q S21MNXAG919308T sda ST2000DM001-1ER164 HP51 Z4Z46TMA sdb ST2000DM001-1ER164 HP51 Z4Z46W3E sdc Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB EMT01B6Q S21MNXAG919312Y sdd Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250G 0309 533144424E4541443837343335324120 sde The last Samsung SSD 840 (/dev/sde) is the one that I’m going to work with....

May 20, 2020 · 2 min · 419 words · kenno