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Create and modify partitions

Create and modify partitions

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Create and modify partitions

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- [Instructor] Let's take a look at exploring the partitions that are available on the system and how to create and modify them. There are a few tools to be aware of before we start this. Generally speaking, there's parted, the partition editor, and fdisk, another tool that modifies the partition table of disks. If you're working in a graphical environment, there's a graphical version of parted called gparted, which can be really useful to get a visual idea of how partitions on a disk are allocated. There's also a program called cfdisk that makes work with partitions at the command line a little bit easier, though it lacks some of the features that fdisk offers. Here on my system, I have two external disks connected. Let's use gparted first to get a look at my drives. If you don't have it installed, you can install it with apt install gparted. And now, I'll run gparted with no arguments. When I open gparted, it defaults to the first device. In this case, sda, the disk that my system…

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