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How to format a hard drive on Ubuntu 12.04 using Fdisk

Today I will show you how to format a hard disk using Fdisk.  Fdisk comes already installed on most modern Linux distributions by default. For the purpose of this tutorial I will be using Fdisk on Ubuntu 12.04 to format … Continue reading

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Formatting a hard drive in Linux

Imagine the situation.  You are using Linux and you want to format a particular hard drive.  What tool would you use?  If you like GUI’s then the best tool to use would be GParted.  But what if you think that … Continue reading

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