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parted(8) |
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GNU Parted − a partition manipulation program
parted [options] [device [command [options...]...]]
This manual page documents briefly the parted command. Complete documentation is distributed with the package in GNU Info format; see below.
parted is a disk partitioning and partition resizing program. It allows you to create, destroy, resize, move and copy ext2, ext3, linux-swap, FAT, FAT32, and reiserfs partitions. It can create, resize and move Macintosh HFS partitions, as well as detect jfs, ntfs, ufs, and xfs partitions. It is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.
-h, --help
displays a help message.
-i, --interactive
prompts for user intervention.
-s, --script
never prompt the user.
-v, --version
displays the version.
[device]
The block device to partition.
[command [options]]
Specifies a command to parted.
If no command is given, parted will give you a command
prompt. Commands are:
check partition
does a simple check on partition.
cp [source-device] source dest
copies the source partition’s filesystem on source-device (or the current device if no other device was specified) to the dest partition on the current device.
help [command]
prints general help, or help on command if specified.
mkfs partition fs-type
make a filesystem fs-type on partition. fs-type can be one of "fat16", "fat32", "ext2", "linux-swap" or "reiserfs".
mklabel label-type
Creates a new disklabel (partition table) of label-type. label-type should be one of "bsd", "dvh", "gpt", "loop", "mac", "msdos", "pc98" or "sun".
mkpart part-type [fs-type] start end
make a part-type partition with filesystem fs-type (if specified), beginning at start and ending at end (in megabytes). fs-type can be one of "fat16", "fat32", "ext2", "HFS", "linux-swap", "NTFS", "reiserfs" or "ufs". part-type should be one of "primary", "logical" or "extended"
mkpartfs part-type fs-type start end
make a part-type partition with filesystem fs-type beginning at start and ending at end (in megabytes)
move partition start end
move partition to start at start and end at end. Note: move never changes the minor number
name partition name
set the name of partition to name. This option works only on Mac, PC98, and GPT disklabels. The name can be placed in quotes, if necessary
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displays the partition table |
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quit |
exits parted |
resize partition start end
resize the filesystem on partition to start at start and end at end megabytes
rm partition
deletes partition
select device
choose device as the current device to edit. device should usually be a Linux hard disk device, but it can be a partition, software raid device or a LVM logical volume if that is necessary
set partition flag state
change the state of the flag on partition to state. Flags supported are: "boot"(Mac, MS-DOS, PC98), "root"(Mac), "swap"(Mac), "hidden"(MS-DOS, PC98), "raid"(MS-DOS), "lvm"(MS-DOS), "lba"(MS-DOS) and "palo"(MS-DOS). state should be either "on" or "off"
ext3 filesystem resizing does not currently work, please use resize2fs(8) instead.
Resizing partitions with an ext3 filesystem will not generally work because of the above issue. Use resize2fs(8) to resize the filesystem and resize the partition manually using fdisk(8) or a similar tool. For LVM situations, you will need to use the LVM commands to resize the LVM elements.
Report bugs to <bug-parted@gnu.org>
fdisk(8), mkfs(8), The parted program is fully documented in the info(1) format GNU partitioning software manual.
This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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