Re: fdisk versus parted

From: Hans Forbrich <fuzzy.graybeard_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 08:05:57 -0700
Message-ID: <5113C2D5.9050509_at_gmail.com>

parted was originally developed to replace fdisk and provide functionality not found in fdssk.

Some of the bigger differences were

• parted supports GUID Partition Table
• parted supports disks > 2TB
• parted allows partition resizing

Red Hat recommends parted over fdisk as of RHEL 6.

A nice discussion at
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-4kb-sector-disks/

/Hans

On 07/02/2013 7:32 AM, Walker, Jed S wrote:
> We have a company document that says to not use fdisk to partition disks for Oracle. It says to use parted or sfdisk. It says you can't guarantee alignment with fdisk.

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Received on Thu Feb 07 2013 - 16:05:57 CET