This manual page documents briefly the
parted
command. Complete documentation is distributed with the 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, FAT32, and reiserfs
partitions. It can create, resize and move Macintosh HFS partitions, as well as detect jfs,
ntfs, ufs, and xfs partitions. It 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
prompts for user intervention.
-s, --script
never prompt the user.
-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]sourcedest
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 partitionfs-type
make a filesystem fs-type on partition. fs-type can be one
of "fat16", "fat32", "ext2", "linux-swap" or "reiserfs".
mklabel label-type
Creates a new disklabel (partition table) of label-type.
label-type should be one of "bsd", "dvh", "gpt", "loop", "mac", "msdos",
"pc98" or "sun".
mkpart part-type[fs-type]startend
make a part-type partition with filesystem fs-type (if specified),
beginning at start and ending at end (in megabytes).
fs-type can be one of
"fat16", "fat32", "ext2", "HFS", "linux-swap", "NTFS", "reiserfs" or "ufs".
part-type should be one of "primary", "logical" or "extended"
mkpartfs part-typefs-typestartend
make a part-type partition with filesystem fs-type beginning at
start and ending at end (in megabytes)
move partitionstartend
move partition to start at start and end at end. Note: move
never changes the minor number
name partitionname
set the name of partition to name. This option works only on Mac,
PC98, and GPT disklabels. The name can be placed in quotes, if necessary
print
displays the partition table
quit
exits parted
resize partitionstartend
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 partitionflagstate
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"
