Make fdisk display size in MB?

[oxsyn]

If I do "sudo fdisk -l" I see the disk size in blocks. Is there a way to display it in MB?

[Monicker]

If I do "sudo fdisk -l" I see the disk size in blocks. Is there a way to display it in MB?

The total size of the disk, or each partition on the disk? fdisk -l shows the size of the drive as the top line.

For seeing the size of partitions in megabytes, do "df -h"

[SOULRiDER]

For seeing the size of partitions in megabytes, do "df -h"

I believe that will only show size of mounted partitions and not all partitions.

[niteshifter]

Hi,


If I do "sudo fdisk -l" I see the disk size in blocks. Is there a way to display it in MB?

With fdisk, no. Size in blocks is all there is. However these two utilities will:

There's sfdisk:

sudo sfdisk -l -uM

which generates a report ala fdisk. The -uM specifies report sizes in MB.

There's also cfdisk:

sudo cfdisk

Press the u key to cycle through the size in sectors, cylinders or M-bytes.
Press Shift+Q to exit cfdisk.


Of the two sfdisk is the safest one to use for inspection. I'd avoid cfdisk unless / until one has some experience using ncurses-based console programs.

Both are in the repositories, but usually are already installed.

[Gen2ly]

Never found a way to have fdisk display in MBs but blocks can be easily converted to megabytes with bc:


echo "BLOCKS/(2^20)" | bc

Gigabytes are 2^30.

[forger]

sudo parted -l ;)