This article spotlights alternative tools to fdisk, a utility that lets you manipulate the disk partition table.
The software featured here is free and open source. All tools provide a command-line interface (CLI).
| Alternatives to fdisk | |
|---|---|
| Parted | Consists of a library, libparted, and a command-line front-end, parte |
| GPT fdisk | Set of text-mode partitioning tools |
| cfdisk | Provides basic partitioning functionality with a user-friendly curses-based interface |
If you’re looking for software with a graphical user interface, check out this roundup.
Are we missing any open source CLI alternatives to fdisk?
All the CLI tools in this series.
| Alternatives to CLI tools |
|---|
| age // awk // bc // cal // cat // cd // chmod // cksum // cloc // cmp // compress // cp // cron // curl // cut // date // dd // df // diff // dig // du // fdisk // file // find // free // ftp // grep // gzip // hexdump // history // jq // kill // less // locate // ls // lsof // make // man // more // mv / ping // ps // psql // rename // rm // sed // split // ssh // stow // strings // sudo // sysctl // tail // talk // tar // telnet // time // top // touch // traceroute // tree // uname // uniq // uptime // vi // watch // Wget // who // whois // xargs |
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