parted - Unix, Linux Command

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 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

Tag	Description
-h, --help
	displays a help message.
-i, --interactive
	prompts for user intervention.
-s, --script
	never prompt the user.
-v, --version
	displays the version.

COMMANDS

Tag

Description

[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:

Tag	Description
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, 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>

AUTHOR

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