NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

parted is a disk partitioning and partition resizing program. It allows you to create, destroy, resize, move and copy ext2, FAT and FAT32 partitions. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.  

OPTIONS

-h, --help

displays a help message

-i, --interactive

where necessary, prompts for user intervention

-s, --script

never prompts for user intervention

-v, --version

displays the version

COMMANDS

[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:

boot partition

sets the boot partition to be partition. partition is 1-4 for primary/extended, and 5+ for logical partitions

check partition

does a simple check on partition

cp source [device] dest

copies source partition's filesystem to dest partition on [device], if specified

help [command]

prints general help, or help on [command] if specified

hide partition

hides partition partition

mklabel label-type

creates a new disklabel (partition table). For label-type, currently only "msdos" is supported

mkfs partition fs-type

make a filesystem fs-type on partition. fs-type can be one of "FAT", "ext2" or "linux-swap"

mkpart part-type [fs-type] start end

make a part-type partition with filesystem [fs-type] (if specified), from start to end (in cylinders). part-type can be "primary", "logical" or "extended"

mkpartfs part-type fs-type start end

make a part-type partition with filesystem fs-type from start to end (in cylinders).

print

displays the partition table

quit

exits program

resize partition start end

resize the filesystem on partition to start at start and end at end cylinders

rm partition

deletes partition

unhide partition

unhides partition

REPORTING BUGS

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Index

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DESCRIPTION

OPTIONS

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REPORTING BUGS

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