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Partitioning a Percentage of Free Space

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First post, by KT7AGuy

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The old MS-DOS version of fdisk would allow the creation of partitions based on a percentage of remaining free disk space. Is there any other partitioning utility that can do that?

For example, using diskpart I can run this command:

create partition primary size=90000

What I would really like to do is this:

create partition primary size=80%

But we all know this won't work, so I need to find something else that can partition based on the percentage of free space rather than a fixed value in MB or GB.

Does anybody know of a solution?

Thanks

Reply 1 of 2, by Disruptor

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Please know that when you are using any disk partition tool from Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 or Windows 11 you won't be able to access it with any version of MS-DOS.
You can try diskmgmt.msc
However, I don't think it supports partitioning in %

Reply 2 of 2, by KT7AGuy

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Yeah, I tried gparted under Linux too. That didn't work either.

It's not like I can't pull out a calculator and determine a value on my own. I just remember that I liked the convenience of fdisk and I don't understand why no other partitioning tools continued that feature.

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