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sfdisk is a Linux partition editor. In contrast to fdisk and cfdisk , sfdisk is not interactive. [ 1 ] All three programs are written in C and are part of the util-linux package of Linux utility programs.
util-linux is a standard package distributed by the Linux Kernel Organization for use as part of the Linux operating system.A fork, util-linux-ng (with ng meaning "next generation"), was created when development stalled, [4] but as of January 2011 has been renamed back to util-linux, and is the official version of the package.
An example command to back up the partition table is sfdisk -d /dev/hda > hda.out and to restore is sfdisk /dev/hda < hda.out. It is possible to copy the partition table from one disk to another this way, useful for setting up mirroring, but sfdisk executes the command without prompting/warnings using sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb. [39]
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IBM introduced the first version of fdisk (officially dubbed "Fixed Disk Setup Program") in March 1983, with the release of the IBM PC/XT computer (the first PC to store data on a hard disk) and the IBM PC DOS 2.0 operating system. fdisk version 1.0 can create one FAT12 partition, delete it, change the active partition, or display partition data. fdisk writes the master boot record, which ...
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The functions currently supported by Disk Utility include: [1] Creation, conversion, backup, compression, and encryption of logical volume images from a wide range of formats read by Disk Utility to .dmg or, for CD/DVD images, .cdr