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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 -f, --fix
34 automatically answer "fix" to exceptions in script mode
35 -v, --version
37 displays the version
38 -a alignment-type, --align alignment-type
40 Set alignment for newly created partitions, valid alignment
41 types are:
42 none Use the minimum alignment allowed by the disk type.
44 cylinder
46 Align partitions to cylinders.
47 minimal
49 Use minimum alignment as given by the disk topology in‐
50 formation. This and the opt value will use layout infor‐
51 mation provided by the disk to align the logical parti‐
52 tion table addresses to actual physical blocks on the
53 disks. The min value is the minimum alignment needed to
54 align the partition properly to physical blocks, which
55 avoids performance degradation.
56 optimal
58 Use optimum alignment as given by the disk topology in‐
59 formation. This aligns to a multiple of the physical
60 block size in a way that guarantees optimal performance.
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64 [device]
65 The block device to be used. When none is given, parted will
66 use the first block device it finds.
67 [command [options]]
69 Specifies the command to be executed. If no command is given,
70 parted will present a command prompt. Possible commands are:
71 help [command]
73 Print general help, or help on command if specified.
74 align-check type partition
76 Check if partition satisfies the alignment constraint of
77 type. type must be "minimal" or "optimal".
78 mklabel label-type
80 Create a new disklabel (partition table) of label-type.
81 label-type should be one of "aix", "amiga", "bsd", "dvh",
82 "gpt", "loop", "mac", "msdos", "pc98", or "sun".
83 mkpart [part-type name fs-type] start end
85 Create a new partition. part-type may be specified only
86 with msdos and dvh partition tables, it should be one of
87 "primary", "logical", or "extended". name is required
88 for GPT partition tables and fs-type is optional. fs-
89 type can be one of "btrfs", "ext2", "ext3", "ext4",
90 "fat16", "fat32", "hfs", "hfs+", "linux-swap", "ntfs",
91 "reiserfs", "udf", or "xfs".
92 name partition name
94 Set the name of partition to name. This option works only
95 on Mac, PC98, and GPT disklabels. The name can be placed
96 in double quotes, if necessary. And depending on the
97 shell may need to also be wrapped in single quotes so
98 that the shell doesn't strip off the double quotes.
99 print Display the partition table.
101 quit Exit from parted.
103 rescue start end
105 Rescue a lost partition that was located somewhere be‐
106 tween start and end. If a partition is found, parted
107 will ask if you want to create an entry for it in the
108 partition table.
109 resizepart partition end
111 Change the end position of partition. Note that this
112 does not modify any filesystem present in the partition.
113 rm partition
115 Delete partition.
116 select device
118 Choose device as the current device to edit. device
119 should usually be a Linux hard disk device, but it can be
120 a partition, software raid device, or an LVM logical vol‐
121 ume if necessary.
122 set partition flag state
124 Change the state of the flag on partition to state. Sup‐
125 ported flags are: "boot", "root", "swap", "hidden",
126 "raid", "lvm", "lba", "legacy_boot", "irst", "msftres",
127 "esp", "chromeos_kernel", "bls_boot" and "palo". state
128 should be either "on" or "off".
129 unit unit
131 Set unit as the unit to use when displaying locations and
132 sizes, and for interpreting those given by the user when
133 not suffixed with an explicit unit. unit can be one of
134 "s" (sectors), "B" (bytes), "kB", "MB", "MiB", "GB",
135 "GiB", "TB", "TiB", "%" (percentage of device size),
136 "cyl" (cylinders), "chs" (cylinders, heads, sectors), or
137 "compact" (megabytes for input, and a human-friendly form
138 for output).
139 toggle partition flag
141 Toggle the state of flag on partition.
142 version
144 Display version information and a copyright message.
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147 Report bugs to <bug-parted@gnu.org>
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150 fdisk(8), mkfs(8), The parted program is fully documented in the
151 info(1) format GNU partitioning software manual.
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154 This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>, for
155 the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
156parted 2007 March 29 PARTED(8)