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6 GNU Parted - a partition manipulation program
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9 parted [options] [device [command [options...]...]]
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12 This manual page documents briefly the parted command. Complete docu‐
13 mentation is distributed with the package in GNU Info format; see
14 below.
15 parted is a disk partitioning and partition resizing program. It
17 allows you to create, destroy, resize, move and copy ext2, ext3, linux-
18 swap, FAT, FAT32, and reiserfs partitions. It can create, resize and
19 move Macintosh HFS partitions, as well as detect jfs, ntfs, ufs, and
20 xfs partitions. It is useful for creating space for new operating sys‐
21 tems, reorganising disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.
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24 -h, --help
25 displays a help message
26 -i, --interactive
28 prompts for user intervention
29 -l, --list
31 lists partition layout on all block devices
32 -m, --machine
34 displays machine parseable output
35 -s, --script
37 never prompts for user intervention
38 -v, --version
40 displays the version
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43 [device]
44 The block device to partition.
45 [command [options]]
47 Specifies a command to parted. If no command is given, parted
48 will give you a command prompt. Commands are:
49 check partition
51 does a simple check on partition.
52 cp [source-device] source dest
54 copies the source partition's filesystem on source-device
55 (or the current device if no other device was specified)
56 to the dest partition on the current device.
57 help [command]
59 prints general help, or help on command if specified.
60 mkfs partition fs-type
62 make a filesystem fs-type on partition. fs-type can be
63 one of "fat16", "fat32", "ext2", "linux-swap" or "reis‐
64 erfs".
65 mklabel label-type
67 Creates a new disklabel (partition table) of label-type.
68 label-type should be one of "bsd", "dvh", "gpt", "loop",
69 "mac", "msdos", "pc98" or "sun".
70 mkpart part-type [fs-type] start end
72 make a part-type partition with filesystem fs-type (if
73 specified), beginning at start and ending at end (in
74 megabytes). fs-type can be one of "fat16", "fat32",
75 "ext2", "HFS", "linux-swap", "NTFS", "reiserfs" or "ufs".
76 part-type should be one of "primary", "logical" or
77 "extended"
78 mkpartfs part-type fs-type start end
80 make a part-type partition with filesystem fs-type begin‐
81 ning at start and ending at end (in megabytes)
82 move partition start end
84 move partition to start at start and end at end. Note:
85 move never changes the minor number
86 name partition name
88 set the name of partition to name. This option works only
89 on Mac, PC98, and GPT disklabels. The name can be placed
90 in quotes, if necessary
91 print displays the partition table
93 quit exits parted
95 resize partition start end
97 resize the filesystem on partition to start at start and
98 end at end megabytes
99 rm partition
101 deletes partition
102 select device
104 choose device as the current device to edit. device
105 should usually be a Linux hard disk device, but it can be
106 a partition, software raid device or a LVM logical volume
107 if that is necessary
108 set partition flag state
110 change the state of the flag on partition to state. Flags
111 supported are: "boot", "root", "swap", "hidden", "raid",
112 "lvm", "lba" and "palo". state should be either "on" or
113 "off"
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116 Report bugs to <bug-parted@gnu.org>
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119 fdisk(8), mkfs(8), The parted program is fully documented in the
120 info(1) format GNU partitioning software manual.
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123 This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>, for
124 the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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