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NAME

       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

       -j, --json
              displays JSON output

       -s, --script
              never prompts for user intervention

       -f, --fix
              automatically answer "fix" to exceptions in script mode

       -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 name fs-type] start end
                     Create  a  new partition. part-type may be specified only with msdos and dvh
                     partition tables, it should be one of "primary", "logical",  or  "extended".
                     name  is required for GPT partition tables and fs-type is optional.  fs-type
                     can be one of "btrfs", "ext2",  "ext3",  "ext4",  "fat16",  "fat32",  "hfs",
                     "hfs+", "linux-swap", "ntfs", "reiserfs", "udf", or "xfs".

              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 double quotes, if necessary.   And
                     depending  on the shell may need to also be wrapped in single quotes so that
                     the shell doesn't strip off the double quotes.

              print print-type
                     Display the partition table.  print-type is optional,  and  can  be  one  of
                     devices, free, list, or all.

              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",  "msftres",  "esp",  "chromeos_kernel",  "bls_boot",   "linux-home",
                     "no_automount",  "bios_grub",  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",  "KiB",
                     "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.

              type partition id or uuid
                     On  MS-DOS  set  the  type aka. partition id of partition to id. The id is a
                     value between "0x01" and "0xff". On GPT the type-uuid of partition to uuid.

              disk_set flag state
                     Change a flag on the disk to state. A flag can  be  either  "on"  or  "off".
                     Some  or  all of these flags will be available, depending on what disk label
                     you are using.  Supported flags are: "pmbr_boot" on GPT to enable  the  boot
                     flag on the GPT's protective MBR partition.

              disk_toggle flag
                     Toggle the state of the disk flag.

              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).