GNU Parted - a partition manipulation program

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

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, 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.

-h, --help

displays a help message.

-i, --interactive

prompt the user where necessary.

-s, --script

never prompt the user.

-v, --version

displays the version.

[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 "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] start end

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-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"

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

fdisk(8), mkfs(8), The parted program is fully documented in the info(1) format GNU partitioning software manual.

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