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135Managing partitions using GDisk
FAT16 partitions in Windows NT
The four commands to be executed are a combination of the original command
plus the commands from the batch file:
gdisk 2 /y /del /all
gdisk 2 /y /cre /pri /-32 /for /q
gdisk 2 /y /cre /ext
gdisk 2 /y /cre /log /-32 /for /q
Batch files may be nested recursively. For example, a second file called Std_init.txt
contains the following lines:
1 /batch:two-new.txt
2 /batch:two-new.txt
As a result, the following command performs the actions of Two-new.txt on both
fixed disks:
gdisk /batch:std-init.txt
FAT16 partitions in Windows NT
FAT16 partitions can be up to 4 GB in size using 64 K clusters in Windows NT.
GDisk can create a FAT16 partition using 64 K clusters when the
/ntfat16 switch is added to the create partition command line. This switch
disables the creation of FAT32 partitions and allows the creation of FAT16
partitions up to 4 GB.
Note: DOS and Windows 9x do not support FAT16 partitions using 64 K clusters
and are limited to 2 GB FAT16 partitions.
Deleting and wiping your disk
GDisk lets you delete data and partitions on your disk or wipe your entire disk.
You cannot delete a dynamic disk partition with the /del switch.
The switch /del /all deletes all partitions that are on the disk. Any other space that
has not been used for creating a partition is not deleted. Deleting an extended
partition also deletes any logical partition within it.
The /diskwipe switch wipes the entire disk, partitions, partition table, MBR, and
all used and unused space.
These switches function with GDisk only.