diskutil-partitiondisk
Utility to manage partitions inside disks and volumes. tldr-pages
On macOS
macOS
Utility to manage partitions inside disks and volumes. APM is only supported for macOS, MBR is optimized for DOS, while GPT is compatible for most modern systems. Part of diskutil.
Reformat a volume using APM/MBR/GPT partitioning scheme, leaving no partitions inside (this will erase all data on the volume)
diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk_device 0 APMIdentifyReformat a volume, then create a single partition using a specific filesystem filling up all free space
diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk_device 1 APM partition_filesystem partition_nameIdentifyReformat a volume, then create a single partition using a specific filesystem under specific size (e.g. 16G for 16GB or 50% to fill half of total volume size)
diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk_device 1 APM partition_filesystem partition_name partition_sizeIdentifyReformat a volume, then create multiple partitions
diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk_device number_of_partitions APM partition_filesystem1 partition_name1 partition_size1 partition_filesystem2 partition_name2 partition_size2 ...IdentifyList all supported filesystems for partitioning
diskutil listFilesystemsIdentify