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FDISK
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fdisk is a command-line utility for disk partitioning. It has been part of DOS, DR FlexOS, IBM OS/2, and early versions of Microsoft Windows, as well as certain ports of FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD and macOS for compatibility reasons. Windows 2000 and its successors have replaced fdisk with a more advanced tool called diskpart.

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Software.name
fdisk
Software.screenshot
Fdisk.png
Software.screenshot size
300px
Software.caption
Screenshot of FDISK on MS-DOS
Software.developer
Robert Baron, IBM, Microsoft, Digital Research, Datalight, Novell, Brian E. Reifsnyder
Software.operating system
MS-DOS, PC DOS, FlexOS, SISNE plus, OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS, Windows, DR DOS, ROM-DOS, FreeDOS, PTS-DOS, *BSD, SysV
Software.genre
Command
Software.license
MS-DOS, PC DOS, FlexOS, OS/2, Windows, DR DOS, ROM-DOS, PTS-DOS: Proprietary commercial software FreeDOS: GNU GPLv2

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Fdisk
inception
1983-00-00
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  • Implementations
  • DOS
  • Windows
  • IBM OS/2
  • Mach and 386BSD
  • Linux
  • See also
  • References
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fdisk is a command-line utility for disk partitioning. It has been part of DOS, DR FlexOS, IBM OS/2, and early versions of Microsoft Windows, as well as certain ports of FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD and macOS for compatibility reasons. Windows 2000 and its successors have replaced fdisk with a more advanced tool called diskpart.

==Implementations==

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