partition table

How do I reload the partition table in Ubuntu Linux without rebooting the systems?

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Linux Create A Bootable USB Pen

by Vivek Gite on March 11, 2010 · 11 comments

How do I create a bootable USB pen drive to start my CentOS / Fedora Linux? How do I create a bootable USB flash pen for installation of Linux, and for creation of rescue and other special-purpose boot disks using command line options?

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Show Linux Partitions Command

by Vivek Gite on February 9, 2010 · 0 comments

How do I display or show a list of all hard disk drive partitions under Linux operating systems?

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Linux Hard Disk Format Command

by Vivek Gite on March 10, 2008 · 47 comments

Q. I’ve installed a new 250GB SATA hard disk on our office CentOS Linux server. How do I format a hard disk under Linux operating system from a shell prompt?

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Q. How can I copy one hard disk to another using dd command? A. dd command can copy disk in raw format. It will copy partition table and bootloader and all partitions within this disk. For example, you can copy /dev/sda to /dev/sdb (same size) using the following dd command. dd should complete with no [...]

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Q. I’d like to see all the partitions on my scsi hard drives. Under Windows Disk manager shows exactly how space is allocated on the disk drivers and free space etc. How do I display hard drive partitions information? A. You can use any one of the following command: [a] fdisk command : Partition table [...]

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UNIX / Linux: Copy Master Boot Record (MBR)

by Vivek Gite on September 20, 2007 · 16 comments

How do I copy MBR from one hard disk to another hard disk under Debian Linux?

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