.TH PARTED 8 "2007 March 29" parted "GNU Parted Manual" .SH NAME GNU Parted \- a partition manipulation program .SH SYNOPSIS .B parted [options] [device [command [options...]...]] .SH DESCRIPTION .B parted is a disk partitioning and partition resizing program. It allows you to create, destroy, resize, move and copy ext2, 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. .PP This manual page documents \fBparted\fP briefly. Complete documentation is distributed with the package in GNU Info format; see near the bottom. .SH OPTIONS .TP .B -h, --help displays a help message .TP .B -l, --list lists partition layout on all block devices .TP .B -m, --machine displays machine parseable output .TP .B -s, --script never prompts for user intervention .TP .B -v, --version displays the version .TP .B -a \fIalignment-type\fP, --align \fIalignment-type\fP Set alignment for newly created partitions, valid alignment types are: .RS .IP none Use the minimum alignment allowed by the disk type. .IP cylinder Align partitions to cylinders. .IP 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 minimum aligment needed to align the partition properly to physical blocks, which avoids performance degradation. .IP 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. .RE .SH COMMANDS .TP .B [device] The block device to be used. When none is given, \fBparted\fP will use the first block device it finds. .TP .B [command [options]] Specifies the command to be executed. If no command is given, .BR parted will present a command prompt. Possible commands are: .RS .TP .B check \fIpartition\fP Do a simple check on \fIpartition\fP. .TP .B cp \fI[source-device]\fP \fIsource\fP \fIdest\fP Copy the \fIsource\fP partition's filesystem on \fIsource-device\fP (or the current device if no other device was specified) to the \fIdest\fP partition on the current device. .TP .B help \fI[command]\fP Print general help, or help on \fIcommand\fP if specified. .TP .B mkfs \fIpartition\fP \fIfs-type\fP Make a filesystem \fIfs-type\fP on \fIpartition\fP. \fIfs-type\fP can be one of "fat16", "fat32", "ext2", "linux-swap", or "reiserfs". .TP .B mklabel \fIlabel-type\fP Create a new disklabel (partition table) of \fIlabel-type\fP. \fIlabel-type\fP should be one of "bsd", "dvh", "gpt", "loop", "mac", "msdos", "pc98", or "sun". .TP .B mkpart \fIpart-type\fP \fI[fs-type]\fP \fIstart\fP \fIend\fP Make a \fIpart-type\fP partition with filesystem \fIfs-type\fP (if specified), beginning at \fIstart\fP and ending at \fIend\fP (by default in megabytes). \fIfs-type\fP can be one of "fat16", "fat32", "ext2", "HFS", "linux-swap", "NTFS", "reiserfs", or "ufs". \fIpart-type\fP should be one of "primary", "logical", or "extended". .TP .B mkpartfs \fIpart-type\fP \fIfs-type\fP \fIstart\fP \fIend\fP Make a \fIpart-type\fP partition with filesystem \fIfs-type\fP beginning at \fIstart\fP and ending at \fIend\fP (by default in megabytes). Using this command is discouraged. Instead use .BR mkpart to create an empty partition, and then use external tools like .BR mke2fs (8) to create the filesystem. .TP .B move \fIpartition\fP \fIstart\fP \fIend\fP Move \fIpartition\fP so that it begins at \fIstart\fP and ends at \fIend\fP. Note: \fBmove\fP never changes the minor number. .TP .B name \fIpartition\fP \fIname\fP Set the name of \fIpartition\fP to \fIname\fP. This option works only on Mac, PC98, and GPT disklabels. The name can be placed in quotes, if necessary. .TP .B print Display the partition table. .TP .B quit Exit from \fBparted\fP. .TP .B rescue \fIstart\fP \fIend\fP Rescue a lost partition that was located somewhere between \fIstart\fP and \fIend\fP. If a partition is found, \fBparted\fP will ask if you want to create an entry for it in the partition table. .TP .B resize \fIpartition\fP \fIstart\fP \fIend\fP Resize the filesystem on \fIpartition\fP so that it begins at \fIstart\fP and ends at \fIend\fP (by default in megabytes). .TP .B rm \fIpartition\fP Delete \fIpartition\fP. .TP .B select \fIdevice\fP Choose \fIdevice\fP as the current device to edit. \fIdevice\fP should usually be a Linux hard disk device, but it can be a partition, software raid device, or an LVM logical volume if necessary. .TP .B set \fIpartition\fP \fIflag\fP \fIstate\fP Change the state of the \fIflag\fP on \fIpartition\fP to \fIstate\fP. Supported flags are: "boot", "root", "swap", "hidden", "raid", "lvm", "lba", "legacy_boot" and "palo". \fIstate\fP should be either "on" or "off". .TP .B unit \fIunit\fP Set \fIunit\fP as the unit to use when displaying locations and sizes, and for interpreting those given by the user when not suffixed with an explicit unit. \fIunit\fP can be one of "s" (sectors), "B" (bytes), "kB", "MB", "GB", "TB", "%" (percentage of device size), "cyl" (cylinders), "chs" (cylinders, heads, sectors), or "compact" (megabytes for input, and a human-friendly form for output). .TP .B version Display version information and a copyright message. .RE .SH KNOWN ISSUES ext3 filesystem functionality does not currently work. To manage ext3 type filesystems use tools like .BR resize2fs (8) or .BR mke2fs (8). Note that the currently supported ext2 filesystem will be deprecated once ext3 support is finalized. Further note that ext3 support will have limited functionality that is yet to be defined. Use tools like .BR resize2fs (8) and .BR mke2fs (8) to manage these types of filesystems. To manually resize an ext3 filesystem and/or a partition use .BR resize2fs (8), .BR fdisk (8) or similar tools. For LVM situations, you will need to use the LVM commands to resize the LVM elements. .SH REPORTING BUGS Report bugs to .SH SEE ALSO .BR fdisk (8), .BR mkfs (8), The \fIparted\fP program is fully documented in the .BR info(1) format .IR "GNU partitioning software" manual which is distributed with the parted-doc Debian package. .SH AUTHOR This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll , for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).