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  • Managing Disk Partition with the parted Tool in CentOS 7

    As a system administrator, sometimes you may require to manage partitions of your CentOS/Red Hat Linux Operating System. Partition management is always a risky task. But there are some useful tools those are so helpful to manage CentOS/Red Hat Linux disk partition easily. In my previous article, I discussed how to manage CentOS/Red Hat 7 HDD partitions with the fdisk utility. The fdisk tool is only eligible to manage MBR partition table. But GPT partition table is now becoming more popular. On the other hand, the fdisk tool cannot resize (shrink or extend) a partition. To overcome these limitations, we can use another partition management tool named parted which can handle GPT partition table as well as can resize disk partitions. In this article, we will know how to create, delete, resize and rescue partitions in CentOS 7/Red Hat 7 Linux with the parted partition manager tool. The parted Utility The parted is open source and command line utility that is used to manage hard disk partitions. It supports multiple partition table formats including MS-DOS (MBR) and GPT. It is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks. Installing parted [...]

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