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Command Line Tools for Linux File System

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

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

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