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How to create a gpt partition table with fdisk

Chris Nzoka-okoye answered on June 29, 2022 Popularity 6/10 Helpfulness 4/10

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How to create a gpt partition table with fdisk

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$ fdisk /dev/sdb

Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.34).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.

Command (m for help):

#enter g to create a new gpt partition table

Command (m for help): g

Created a new GPT disklabel (GUID: 4649EE36-3013-214E-961C-51A9187A7503).

# Run the n command to create a new partition

Command (m for help): n

Partition number (1-128, default 1): #hit enter

First sector (2048-500118158, default 2048): #hit enter

# for the last sector, use +symbol and then enter the size of the partition in 
# kibibytes (K), mebibytes (M), gibibytes (G), tebibytes (T), or pebibytes (P).
Last sector, +/-sectors or +/-size{K,M,G,T,P} (2048-500118158, default 500118158): +100G

Created a new partition 1 of type 'Linux filesystem' and of size 100 GiB.

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