fdisk

Partitioning? No not mathematics partitions, computer partitions. More specifically hardware partitions (in my case a microSD card). I am officially put off GUIs and am taking a hiatus from them. My raspberry pi’s microSD card isn’t being used at the moment, so I am formatting it to be used as storage for pcap files that I am capturing on my network. Perfect time to learn how to partition drives from the terminal! After a quick ddg search, the first link was about fdisk. Since the microSD card was accessible from my onion I wanted to see if I could install fdisk using opkg on the onion and format the microSD card from there. opkg install fdisk …

It works! Eureka!

First thing to do is list the partitions ~ fdisk -l

Next to enter command mode via fdisk <partition>

From the help argument (h) we can see the available commands.

p to print the partition table.

d to delete the partition(s).

n to create a new partition table

w to write the changes to the drive

Pretty straight-forward.