---
name: "atari-fdisk"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "atari-fdisk-cross"
version: "0.7.1-5.4"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/atari-fdisk"
---

# atari-fdisk(8)

Atari partition editor

## NAME

atari-fdisk - Atari partition editor

## SYNOPSIS

**atari-fdisk** \[ **-f** \] \[ **-l** \] \[ **-r** \] \[ **-s** \] \[ **-v** \] \[ **-x** \] \[ **-O** *file* \] \[ **-I** *file* \] *device*

## DESCRIPTION

**atari-fdisk** is an editor for Atari partition tables. It has an interactive menu for most actions. It operates on the disk associated with *device*.

## OPTIONS

- **-f**

  Force operation on disks from which partitions seem to be mounted. (This is generally no good idea!)

- **-l**

  List partition tables of all disks. If this flag is given, interactive mode isn't entered.

- **-r**

  Open the disk device in read-only mode. You can view the partition table then, but cannot write back a modified table to disk.

- **-s**

  Only print the size (in blocks) of the partition *device*. Note that *device* should be a single partition device (e.g. /dev/sda1), not a whole-disk device (e.g. /dev/sda), for this.

- **-v**

  Show version of the program.

- **-x**

  Enter expert mode immediately. Expert mode can also be switched on by a menu item.

- **-O *file***

  Save the partition tables of *device* to a file *file*. This file can later be used to restore all the partition information with the -I option.

- **-I *file***

  Read a partition table from *file* (that has been created with -O) and write it back to disk.

## AUTHOR

Roman Hodek \<Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de\>