parted

Langue: en

Version: 51830 (openSuse - 09/10/07)

Section: 8 (Commandes administrateur)

NAME

GNU Parted - a partition manipulation program

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

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.

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

OPTIONS

-h, --help
displays a help message
-i, --interactive
prompts for user intervention
-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

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:
check partition
Do a simple check on partition.
cp [source-device] source dest
Copy 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]
Print 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
Create 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 (by default 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 (by default in megabytes).
move partition start end
Move partition so that it begins at start and ends 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
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.
resize partition start end
Resize the filesystem on partition so that it begins at start and ends at end (by default in megabytes).
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", 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 suffixed with an explicit unit. unit 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).
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.

AUTHOR

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