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-.\" cfdisk.8 -- man page for cfdisk
-.\" Copyright 1994 Kevin E. Martin (martin@cs.unc.edu)
-.\" Copyright (C) 2014 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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-.TH CFDISK 8 "March 2014" "util-linux" "System Administration"
-.SH NAME
-cfdisk \- display or manipulate disk partition table
-.SH SYNOPSIS
-.B cfdisk
-.RB [ options ]
-.RI [ device ]
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-.B cfdisk
-is a curses-based program for partitioning any block device.
-The default device is /dev/sda.
-
-Note that
-.B cfdisk
-provides basic partitioning functionality by user friendly interface. If you
-need advanced features then use
-.BR fdisk (8).
-
-Since version 2.25
-.BR cfdisk (8)
-supports MBR (DOS), GPT, SUN and SGI disk labels, but it does not provides any
-functionality in regards to CHS (Cylinder-Head-Sector) addressing. CHS has
-never been important for Linux and this addressing concept does not make any
-sense for new devices.
-
-Since version 2.25
-.BR cfdisk (8)
-also does not provide a 'print' command. This functionality is provided by
-utils
-.BR partx (8)
-and
-.BR lsblk (8)
-in very comfortable and rich way.
-
-If you want to remove an old partition table from device than use
-.BR wipefs (8).
-
-.SH OPTIONS
-.IP "\fB\-h, \-\-help\fP"
-Display help text and exit.
-.IP "\fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-color\fR[=\fIwhen\fR]"
-Colorize output, enabled by default. The optional argument \fIwhen\fP can be
-\fBauto\fR, \fBnever\fR or \fBalways\fR. If the \fIwhen\fR argument is omitted,
-then it defaults to \fBauto\fR.
-.IP "\fB-V, \-\-version"
-Display version information and exit.
-
-.SH COMMANDS
-.B cfdisk
-commands can be entered by pressing the desired key (pressing
-.I Enter
-after the command is not necessary). Here is a list of the available
-commands:
-.TP
-.B b
-Toggle bootable flag of the current partition. This allows you to
-select which primary partition is bootable on the drive. This command does not
-have to available for all partition label types.
-.TP
-.B d
-Delete the current partition. This will convert the current partition
-into free space and merge it with any free space immediately
-surrounding the current partition. A partition already marked as free
-space or marked as unusable cannot be deleted.
-.TP
-.B h
-Print the help screen.
-.TP
-.B n
-Create a new partition from free space.
-.B cfdisk
-next prompts you for the size of the partition you want to create.
-The default size is equal to the entire available free space at the current
-position.
-
-The size may be followed by the multiplicative suffixes KiB=1024,
-MiB=1024*1024, and so on for GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB, ZiB and YiB (the "iB"
-is optional, e.g. "K" has the same meaning as "KiB")
-.TP
-.B q
-Quit program. This will exit the program without writing any data to
-disk.
-.TP
-.B t
-Change the partition type. By default, new partitions are created as
-.I Linux
-partitions.
-.TP
-.B W
-Write the partition table to disk (you must enter an uppercase W). Since
-this might destroy data on the disk, you must either confirm or deny
-the write by entering `yes' or `no'. If you enter `yes',
-.B cfdisk
-will write the partition table to disk and then tell the kernel to re-read the
-partition table from the disk.
-
-The re-reading of the partition table does not work in some cases. In such a
-case you need to inform the kernel about new partitions by
-.BR partprobe (8),
-.BR kpartx (8)
-or reboot the system.
-.TP
-.IR "Up Arrow" , " Down Arrow"
-Move the cursor to the previous or next partition. If there are more
-partitions than can be displayed on a screen, you can display the next
-(previous) set of partitions by moving down (up) at the last (first)
-partition displayed on the screen.
-
-.PP
-All of the commands can be entered with either upper or lower case
-letters (except for
-.BR W rite).
-When in a sub-menu or at a prompt to enter a filename, you can hit the
-.I ESC
-key to return to the main command line.
-
-.SH COLORS
-Implicit coloring can be disabled as follows:
-.RS
-
-.br
-.BI "touch /etc/terminal-colors.d/cfdisk.disable"
-.br
-
-.RE
-For more details see
-.BR terminal-colors.d (5).
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
-.BR fdisk (8),
-.BR sfdisk (8),
-.BR parted (8),
-.BR partprobe (8),
-.BR partx(8)
-.SH AUTHOR
-Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
-.PP
-The current cfdisk implemntation is based on the original cfdisk
-from Kevin E. Martin (martin@cs.unc.edu).
-
-.SH AVAILABILITY
-The cfdisk command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
-ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
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