Posts tagged ‘posix’

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The old standard for managing disk partitions was via the Master Boot Record (MBR). This was replaced by GUID Partition Table (GPT). This is more flexible, more resilient, allows larger partition sizes, and is used with UEFI systems. Tools like fdisk used to only support MBR, which made parted more useful for GPT support, but fdisk now also supports GPT.

Sometimes, when a process goes awry, you’ll want to find the pid with ps aux | grep <processname> so that you can kill it. Sometimes, you’ll need tools that let you do more investigating…