C.5. Ubuntu Partitioning Programs

Several varieties of partitioning programs have been adapted by Debian and Ubuntu developers to work on various types of hard disks and computer architectures. Following is a list of the program(s) applicable for your architecture.

partman

Recommended partitioning tool in Ubuntu. This Swiss army knife can also resize partitions, create filesystems and assign them to the mountpoints.

fdasd

S/390 version of fdisk; Please read the IBM Linux on Z and LinuxONE s390-tools overview and find the fdasd section there s390-tools overview for further details.

One of these programs will be run by default when you select Partition disks (or similar). It may be possible to use a different partitioning tool, but this is not recommended.