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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Need help Partitioning Post 302747359 by RudiC on Friday 21st of December 2012 06:21:19 AM
Old 12-21-2012
There's many partitioning tools in linux, of which fdisk, sfdisk, cfdisk, parted are only a short list, excluding their GUI frontends like gparted.
There's no easiest way, you have to find your way through. Normally Red Hat offer a partitioning step during install.
 

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