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Make the currently selected PRIMARY the 'active' partition for MBR/BIOS boot
This will make the currently selected PRIMARY partition the ACTIVE one for the disk. There should only be a single active partition on every disk. When the system starts, the BIOS will usually boot from the ACTIVE partition on the first disk. In IBM BMGR/LVM terms the active partition is called STARTABLE. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Delete the currently selected partition from the partition tables
This will delete the partition that is currently selected to be deleted from the partition-tables. This will result in the space occupied by the partition becoming FREESPACE that can be used again to create new partitions. For primary partitions on LVM-systems, the related LVM-information is cleared as well, to avoid consistency problems later when a new partition is created at the same position. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Wipe the Bootsector, FIRST sector in a filesystem. Remove obsolete FS info
This will wipe the bootsector (first sector) of the selected filesystem or partition. Can be useful to get rid of old formatting infomation that may confuse tools when trying to reformat. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Unselect filesystem, reselect the same/first disk; enables Mode=FDISK menu
This will UNSELECT the current object/filesystem, and reselect a whole physical disk, either the same disk as the partition was on, or the first disk present in other cases. This is a quick way to change to 'Mode=FDISK' and work on disk-level issues - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
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