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6 parted - a partition manipulation program
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9 parted [options] [device [command [options...]...]]
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12 parted is a program to manipulate disk partitions. It supports multi‐
13 ple partition table formats, including MS-DOS and GPT. It is useful
14 for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage,
15 and copying data to new hard disks.
16 This manual page documents parted briefly. Complete documentation is
18 distributed with the package in GNU Info format.
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21 -h, --help
22 displays a help message
23 -l, --list
25 lists partition layout on all block devices
26 -m, --machine
28 displays machine parseable output
29 -s, --script
31 never prompts for user intervention
32 -v, --version
34 displays the version
35 -a alignment-type, --align alignment-type
37 Set alignment for newly created partitions, valid alignment
38 types are:
39 none Use the minimum alignment allowed by the disk type.
41 cylinder
43 Align partitions to cylinders.
44 minimal
46 Use minimum alignment as given by the disk topology
47 information. This and the opt value will use layout
48 information provided by the disk to align the logical
49 partition table addresses to actual physical blocks on
50 the disks. The min value is the minimum alignment needed
51 to align the partition properly to physical blocks, which
52 avoids performance degradation.
53 optimal
55 Use optimum alignment as given by the disk topology
56 information. This aligns to a multiple of the physical
57 block size in a way that guarantees optimal performance.
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61 [device]
62 The block device to be used. When none is given, parted will
63 use the first block device it finds.
64 [command [options]]
66 Specifies the command to be executed. If no command is given,
67 parted will present a command prompt. Possible commands are:
68 help [command]
70 Print general help, or help on command if specified.
71 align-check type partition
73 Check if partition satisfies the alignment constraint of
74 type. type must be "minimal" or "optimal".
75 mklabel label-type
77 Create a new disklabel (partition table) of label-type.
78 label-type should be one of "aix", "amiga", "bsd", "dvh",
79 "gpt", "loop", "mac", "msdos", "pc98", or "sun".
80 mkpart [part-type name fs-type] start end
82 Create a new partition. part-type may be specified only
83 with msdos and dvh partition tables, it should be one of
84 "primary", "logical", or "extended". name is required
85 for GPT partition tables and fs-type is optional. fs-
86 type can be one of "btrfs", "ext2", "ext3", "ext4",
87 "fat16", "fat32", "hfs", "hfs+", "linux-swap", "ntfs",
88 "reiserfs", or "xfs".
89 name partition name
91 Set the name of partition to name. This option works only
92 on Mac, PC98, and GPT disklabels. The name can be placed
93 in double quotes, if necessary. And depending on the
94 shell may need to also be wrapped in single quotes so
95 that the shell doesn't strip off the double quotes.
96 print Display the partition table.
98 quit Exit from parted.
100 rescue start end
102 Rescue a lost partition that was located somewhere
103 between start and end. If a partition is found, parted
104 will ask if you want to create an entry for it in the
105 partition table.
106 resizepart partition end
108 Change the end position of partition. Note that this
109 does not modify any filesystem present in the partition.
110 rm partition
112 Delete partition.
113 select device
115 Choose device as the current device to edit. device
116 should usually be a Linux hard disk device, but it can be
117 a partition, software raid device, or an LVM logical vol‐
118 ume if necessary.
119 set partition flag state
121 Change the state of the flag on partition to state. Sup‐
122 ported flags are: "boot", "root", "swap", "hidden",
123 "raid", "lvm", "lba", "legacy_boot", "irst", "esp" and
124 "palo". state should be either "on" or "off".
125 unit unit
127 Set unit as the unit to use when displaying locations and
128 sizes, and for interpreting those given by the user when
129 not suffixed with an explicit unit. unit can be one of
130 "s" (sectors), "B" (bytes), "kB", "MB", "MiB", "GB",
131 "GiB", "TB", "TiB", "%" (percentage of device size),
132 "cyl" (cylinders), "chs" (cylinders, heads, sectors), or
133 "compact" (megabytes for input, and a human-friendly form
134 for output).
135 toggle partition flag
137 Toggle the state of flag on partition.
138 version
140 Display version information and a copyright message.
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143 Report bugs to <bug-parted@gnu.org>
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146 fdisk(8), mkfs(8), The parted program is fully documented in the
147 info(1) format GNU partitioning software manual.
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150 This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>, for
151 the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
152parted 2007 March 29 PARTED(8)