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 minimum 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 suffixed 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)