PARTED(8)                                                        GNU Parted Manual                                                       PARTED(8)

NAME

       GNU Parted - a partition manipulation program

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       parted  is  a program to manipulate disk partitions.  It supports multiple partition table formats, including MS-DOS and GPT.  It is useful
       for creating space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.

       This manual page documents parted briefly.  Complete documentation is distributed with the package in GNU Info format.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              displays a help message

       -l, --list
              lists partition layout on all block devices

       -m, --machine
              displays machine parseable output

       -s, --script
              never prompts for user intervention

       -v, --version
              displays the version

       -a alignment-type, --align alignment-type
              Set alignment for newly created partitions, valid alignment types are:

              none   Use the minimum alignment allowed by the disk type.

              cylinder
                     Align partitions to cylinders.

              minimal
                     Use minimum alignment as given by the disk topology information. This and the opt value will use layout information  provided
                     by the disk to align the logical partition table addresses to actual physical blocks on the disks.  The min value is the min-
                     imum alignment needed to align the partition properly to physical blocks, which avoids performance degradation.

              optimal
                     Use optimum alignment as given by the disk topology information. This aligns to a multiple of the physical block  size  in  a
                     way that guarantees optimal performance.

COMMANDS

       [device]
              The block device to be used.  When none is given, parted will use the first block device it finds.

       [command [options]]
              Specifies the command to be executed.  If no command is given, parted will present a command prompt.  Possible commands are:

              help [command]
                     Print general help, or help on command if specified.

              align-check type partition
                     Check if partition satisfies the alignment constraint of type.  type must be "minimal" or "optimal".

              mklabel label-type
                     Create  a  new  disklabel  (partition table) of label-type.  label-type should be one of "aix", "amiga", "bsd", "dvh", "gpt",
                     "loop", "mac", "msdos", "pc98", or "sun".

              mkpart part-type [fs-type] start end
                     Make a part-type partition for filesystem fs-type (if specified), beginning at  start  and  ending  at  end  (by  default  in
                     megabytes).  part-type should be one of "primary", "logical", or "extended".

              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  Display the partition table.

              quit   Exit from parted.

              rescue start end
                     Rescue a lost partition that was located somewhere between start and end.  If a partition is found, parted will  ask  if  you
                     want to create an entry for it in the partition table.

              resizepart partition end
                     Change the end position of partition.  Note that this does not modify any filesystem present in the partition.

              rm partition
                     Delete 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 an LVM logical volume if necessary.

              set partition flag state
                     Change the state of the flag on partition to state.  Supported flags are: "boot", "root", "swap",  "hidden",  "raid",  "lvm",
                     "lba", "legacy_boot", "irst", "esp" and "palo".  state should be either "on" or "off".

              unit unit
                     Set  unit  as the unit to use when displaying locations and sizes, and for interpreting those given by the user when not suf-
                     fixed with an explicit unit.  unit can be one of "s" (sectors), "B" (bytes), "kB", "MB", "MiB", "GB", "GiB", "TB", "TiB", "%"
                     (percentage  of  device size), "cyl" (cylinders), "chs" (cylinders, heads, sectors), or "compact" (megabytes for input, and a
                     human-friendly form for output).

              toggle partition flag
                     Toggle the state of flag on partition.

              version
                     Display version information and a copyright message.

REPORTING BUGS

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

SEE ALSO

       fdisk(8), mkfs(8), The parted program is fully documented in the info(1) format GNU partitioning software manual which is distributed  with
       the parted-doc Debian package.

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                                                             2007 March 29                                                         PARTED(8)