parted
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| Examples with 2 × 2 TB hard disk drives as MBR,
| for a virtual 4 TB with data and 32 GB of swap as GPT.
|

MBR
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::

 parted /dev/sda
 mktable msdos
 mkpart primary 1 2000399

::

 parted /dev/sdb
 mktable msdos
 mkpart primary 1 2000399

.. warning::

 The first megabyte makes room for an embedded bootloader.

GPT
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::

 parted /dev/md0
 mktable gpt
 mkpart data 1 3966128
 mkpart swap 2 4000527

.. note::

 Start offset of a partition can be inferior than actual free space beginning.