How to create one new partition in my hard disk in Linux

Question

Hi Guys,

I want to create one new partition in my disk for my project. But I am not able to do so.

How can I do that?

Thank You

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

To create new partition you can follow the below given steps one by one.

• Enter the particular hard disk name.

$ fdisk /dev/sdb
Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.23.2).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.
Device does not contain a recognized partition table
Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x3f5179f6.
Command (m for help):

• Enter n to create new partion.

• Enter p to create primary partition.

• Give size of the partition.

• Save it with w.

Command (m for help): n
Partition type:
   p   primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
   e   extended
Select (default p): p
Partition number (1-4, default 1): 1
First sector (2048-20971519, default 2048):
Using default value 2048
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G} (2048-20971519, default 20971519): +1G
Partition 1 of type Linux and of size 1 GiB is set
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.

• Update your partition table with the below command.

$ udevadm settle

Hope this will help.
Thank You