NAME

GNU Parted - a partition manipulation program

SYNOPSIS

parted [options? [device [[command [[options...?...]]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the parted command. Complete documentation is distributed with the parted-doc Debian 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 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:

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 "FAT", "ext2" or "linux-swap".

mklabel label-type

Creates a new disklabel (partition table) of label-type. label-type should be one of "bsd", "gpt", "loop", "mac", "mips", "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). 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 and PC98 disklabels. The name can be placed in quotes, if necessary

print

displays the partition table

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", "root", "swap", "hidden", "raid", "lvm", "lba" and "palo". state should be either "on" or "off"

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <bug-parted@gnu.org>

SEE ALSO

fdisk(8), mkfs(8), The parted program is documented fully in the GNU partitioning software manual available via the Info system.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).