PARTED(8) GNU Parted Manual PARTED(8)NAME
GNU Parted - a partition manipulation program
SYNOPSISparted [options] [device [command [options...]...]]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the parted command. Complete docu‐
mentation 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 sys‐
tems, 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] 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 "reis‐
erfs".
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 begin‐
ning 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, PC98, and GPT 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"(Mac, MS-DOS, PC98), "root"(Mac),
"swap"(Mac), "hidden"(MS-DOS, PC98), "raid"(MS-DOS),
"lvm"(MS-DOS), "lba"(MS-DOS) and "palo"(MS-DOS). state
should be either "on" or "off"
KNOWN ISSUES
ext3 filesystem resizing, copying and creating do not currently work,
please use tools like resize2fs(8) and mke2fs(8) instead.
Resizing partitions with an ext3 filesystem will not generally work
because of the above issue. Use resize2fs(8) to resize the filesystem
and resize the partition manually using fdisk(8) or a similar tool.
For LVM situations, you will need to use the LVM commands to resize the
LVM elements.
Parted also missbehaves when certian type of arguments are used. If
the syntax used to describe offsets from the end '-1s' is used in the
command line, '--' must be used after OPTIONS so as not to confuse
getopt. Eg: parted-s /dev/sdb -- mklabel gpt mkpart primary ext2 1s
-1s
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-parted@gnu.org>
SEE ALSOfdisk(8), mkfs(8), The parted program is fully documented in the
info(1) format GNU partitioning software manual.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <timshel@debian.org>, for
the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
parted 18 Mar, 2002 PARTED(8)
