NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

       GNU Parted - a partition manipulation program

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

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

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

       This  manual page documents briefly the parted command.	Complete documentation
 is distributed with the package.

       parted is a disk  partitioning  and  partition  resizing  program.   It
       allows  you  to	create,  destroy,  resize, move and copy ext2, FAT and
       FAT32 partitions.  This is useful for creating space for new  operating
       systems, reorganising disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.

OPTIONS    [Toc]    [Back]

       -h, --help
	      displays a help message

       -i, --interactive
	      where necessary, prompts for user intervention

       -s, --script
	      never prompts for user intervention

       -v, --version
	      displays the version

COMMANDS    [Toc]    [Back]

       [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

	      mklabel label-type
		     creates a new disklabel  (partition  table).  For	label-
		     type, currently only "msdos" is supported

	      mkfs partition fs-type
		     make  a  filesystem  fs-type on partition. fs-type can be
		     one of "FAT", "ext2" or "linux-swap"

	      mklabel label-type
		     Creates a new disklabel of type label-type on the current
		     device.   label-type  should  be  one  of	"bsd", "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).  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  "hp-service".	state should be either
		     "on" or "off"

REPORTING BUGS    [Toc]    [Back]

       Report bugs to <[email protected]>

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

       fdisk(8), mkfs(8), USER manual.

AUTHOR    [Toc]    [Back]

       This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <[email protected]>,  for
       the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).



parted				 25 Apr, 2001			     parted(8)