Command Line Tools for Linux File System

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Please refer to Command Line Tools for Mac File System for the macOS version.

1. List disk information.

    df
    df /HOME

2. Format disk partitions.

    mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb3
   
    mkfs.ntfs /dev/sdb3
   
    mkfs.exfat /dev/sdb3

3. Management disk partition tables.

    fdisk /dev/sdb

4. Report disk usage.

    du -lhd 1 .

5. dd

    dd if=... of=... bs=1M; sync

6. badblocks

7. lsblk

References¶

How To – Linux List Disk Partitions Command

10 Commands to Check Disk Partitions and Disk Space on Linux