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= Overview =
In order to use a physical storage device (e.g. Hard Disk, USB Flash memeorymemory, SSD, etc.), the first step is to create partition(s) on it. There many different ways to partition a physical storage device. The two most common partition schemes used on Intel based micro-computer systems are MBR and GPT. Detail about the MBR partition scheme can be found [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record here], and GPT partition scheme can be found at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table].
On most Linux systems, fdisk or parted can be used to create, view, and manage MBR and GPT partitions.
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#! /usr/bin/python
# read and display primary partition info
# on a physical disk or disk image
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