What partition utility does the debian setup use?

Nothinman

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fdisk or cfdisk, can't remember it's been so long since I saw the install...
 

Barnaby W. Füi

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IIRC, fdisk isnt even interactive, you just use arguments to tell it how to partition. debian install uses cfdisk. (or at least its a cfdisk clone)
 

Nothinman

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fdisk is interactive, it's command driven.

$ /sbin/fdisk /dev/hda

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 833 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 2 15088+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 * 3 409 3076920 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3 410 833 3205440 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 410 444 264568+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 445 833 2940808+ 83 Linux

Command (m for help): q