Command line utility of DOS and Microsoft Windows operating systems
fdisk
Screenshot of FDISK on MS-DOS
Developer(s)
Robert Baron, IBM, Microsoft, Digital Research, Datalight, Novell, Brian E. Reifsnyder
Initial release
1983, 40–41 years ago
Operating system
MS-DOS, PC DOS, FlexOS, SISNE plus, OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS, Windows, DR DOS, ROM-DOS, FreeDOS, PTS-DOS, *BSD,[1] SysV
Type
Command
License
MS-DOS, PC DOS, FlexOS, OS/2, Windows, DR DOS, ROM-DOS, PTS-DOS: Proprietary commercial software
FreeDOS: GNU GPLv2
fdisk is a command-line utility for disk partitioning. It has been part of DOS, DR FlexOS, IBM OS/2, and early versions of Microsoft Windows, as well as certain ports of FreeBSD,[2] NetBSD,[3] OpenBSD,[4] DragonFly BSD[5] and macOS[6] for compatibility reasons. Windows 2000 and its successors have replaced fdisk with a more advanced tool called diskpart.
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fdisk is a command-line utility for disk partitioning. It has been part of DOS, DR FlexOS, IBM OS/2, and early versions of Microsoft Windows, as well...
3.31 and higher except for a possibly wrong file system type display in FDISK. QNX partition IDs 07h, 08h, 09h, 4Dh (77), 4Eh (78), 4Fh (79), as well...
cfdisk is a Linux partition editor, similar to fdisk, but with a different, curses-based user interface. It is part of the util-linux package of Linux...
2000 and later Microsoft operating systems, replacing its predecessor, fdisk. The command is also available in ReactOS. The diskpart utility is used...
Linux system utilities not included in GNU Core Utilities, such as mount, fdisk, more, and kill. GPL-3.0-or-later since version 6.10. GPL-2.0-or-later until...
the boot flag, such as Disk Management in Windows, GPartEd in Linux, and fdisk. Some BIOSes test if the boot flag of at least one partition is set, otherwise...
Volume boot record (VBR) One FDISK utility written to be aware of BIOS boot sector protection features is DR-DOS' FDISK R2.31 (and higher), which will...
Restore Logical Disk Manager Palimpsest Disk Utility GNU Parted diskpart fdisk cfdisk sfdisk "Intro to Disk Utility on Mac". Apple Support. Retrieved November...
releases. The FDISK command manipulates hard disk partition tables. The name derives from IBM's habit of calling hard drives fixed disks. FDISK has the ability...
is DR-DOS' FDISK R2.31 with its optional wipe parameter /W:246 (for a fill value of 0xF6). In contrast to other FDISK utilities, DR-DOS FDISK is not only...
NT family fdisk (FreeDOS) Brian Reifsnyder Free software Yes FreeDOS fdisk (Microsoft) Microsoft Proprietary software No MS-DOS, Windows fdisk (OS/2) IBM...
cfdisk fdisk GNU Parted (2.0 or later). GParted, the front-end to GNU Parted. gpt(8) partition editor in NetBSD (5.0 or later). gdisk: GPT fdisk Unified...
filesystem blocks. In Linux, disk sector size can be determined with sudo fdisk -l | grep "Sector size" and block size can be determined with sudo blockdev...
DSKPROBE tool refers to type 0x06 as BigFAT, whereas some older versions of FDISK described it as BIGDOS. Technically, it is known as FAT16B. Since older...
timestamp. Optional 32-bit disk signature. IBM PC DOS 2.0 introduced the FDISK utility to set up and maintain MBR partitions. When a storage device has...
Disk Block Timeline of DOS operating systems History of Microsoft Windows FDISK "Archive:SuSE Linux 6.4". openSUSE wiki. Retrieved 2017-06-28. "SUSE LINUX...
to which the operating system will be installed (using a program such as fdisk or cfdisk); creates the appropriate file systems on the various partitions;...
officially undefined, but there exists commercial software (e.g. the version of FDISK distributed with MS-DOS versions 3.30 to 6.22) that rely on it to behave...
misleading to associate drive letters with partitions inside FDISK. Also, the fact that DR-DOS FDISK does not only partition but also format freshly created...
MS-DOS-format partition table but do not interpret the GPT--for example, the fdisk program of both MS-DOS and Linux. primary master boot record, also in reference...
hard disks is DR-DOS' FDISK R2.31 with its optional wipe parameter /W:246. In contrast to other FDISK utilities, DR-DOS FDISK is not only a partitioning...
sfdisk is a Linux partition editor. In contrast to fdisk and cfdisk, sfdisk is not interactive. All three programs are written in C and are part of the...
systems List of default file systems Stratis (configuration daemon) "GPT fdisk - ArchWiki". "What is the maximum number of inodes in Linux filesystems...
It gives you the information you need to manually re-create them (using fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, etc.). The guessed partition table can also be written...
was defined jointly by GPT fdisk and GNU Parted developers. It is identified as type code 0x8300 in GPT fdisk. (See definitions in gdisk's parttypes...
geometry (as would be used by most partition editors such as DOS fdisk, Linux fdisk, Ranish Partition Manager, or an XP installation disk), and this partition...
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