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Partitions and disk layout
The cylinders define partition boundaries. The sectors define data blocks.
To see the block devices (drives and partitions) on the desktop:
Alternatively:
Our desktops have two drives, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
To partition a drive, we can use command fdisk
For hard drives > 2TB capacity, one should use gdisk or
parted commands.
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