Next, enter ‘ d‘ to delete any given partition name from the system. You must be in fdisk command mode to do this. If you would like to delete a specific partition (i.e /dev/sda9) from the specific hard disk such as /dev/sda. As I enter ‘ p‘, it will print the specific /dev/sda partition table. ~]# fdisk /dev/sdaįrom the command mode, enter ‘ p‘ instead of ‘ m‘ as we did earlier. To print all partition table of hard disk, you must be on command mode of specific hard disk say /dev/sda. ~]# fdisk /dev/sdaĬommand (m for help): 4. After, I enter ‘ m‘ on the screen, you will see the all available options for fdisk that you can be used on the /dev/sda device. Type ‘ m‘ to see the list of all available commands of fdisk which can be operated on /dev/sda hard disk. Switch off the mode (command 'c') and change display units to WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. The following command will give you output similar to below. Simply use the following command by mentioning the hard disk name such as /dev/sda as shown below. If you would like to view all commands which are available for fdisk. If you’ve different device names, simple write device name as /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc. For example, the following command will display all disk partitions of device /dev/sda.

To view all partitions of specific hard disk use the option ‘ -l‘ with device name. For example: /dev/sda, /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc. The partitions are displayed by their device’s names.

The ‘ -l‘ argument stand for (listing all partitions) is used with fdisk command to view all available partitions on Linux. The following basic command list all existing disk partition on your system. Caution – Don’t Create, Delete or Modify Partitions.

Linux partition manager