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What does sfdisk do, and how does it compare to fdisk or parted?

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Mar 15, 202632475 views
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I was looking over documentation for ZFS for Linux and I came accross a command that the instructions tell me to run to prepare a disk for use. The command was; The line breaks are included the command took up 3 lines What does sfdisk do? Is it the same and creating a new partition table or is it s…

Error Output

sfdisk -q /dev/zvol/tank/fish << EOF
0,
EOF

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sfdisk reads and writes partition tables, but is not interactive like fdisk or cfdisk (it reads input from a file or stdin). It's generally used for partitioning drives from scripts or for partition table backup and recovery. Since it's command driv…

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