libfdisk Reference Manual: libfdisk Reference Manual

for libfdisk version 2.33.2

Copyright © 2014-2018 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>

I. libfdisk Overview

II. Basic handlers and setting

Context — stores info about device, labels etc.
Ask — interface for dialog driven partitioning, warning and info messages
Alignment — functions to align partitions and work with disk topology and geometry
Script — text based sfdisk compatible description of partition table

III. Partitioning

Label — disk label (PT) specific data and functions
Partition — generic label independent partition abstraction
Table — container for fdisk partitions
Partition types — abstraction to partition types
Labelitem — disk label items
Field — description of the partition fields

IV. Label specific functions

DOS — disk label specific functions
UEFI GPT — specific functionality
SUN — disk label specific functions
SGI — disk label specific functions
BSD — disk label specific functions

Iterator — unified iterator
Utils — misc fdisk functions
Library initialization — initialize debug stuff
Version functions — functions to get the library version.