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NAME
       GNU Parted - a partition manipulation program

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

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents briefly the parted command.  Complete docu-
       mentation is distributed with the package  in  GNU  Info	 format;  see
       below.

       parted  is  a  disk  partitioning  and partition resizing program.  It
       allows you to create, destroy,  resize,	move  and  copy	 ext2,	ext3,
       linux-swap,  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
       -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
       [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.

	      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 (partition table) of label-type.
		     label-type should be one of "bsd", "gpt", "loop", "mac",
		     "mips", "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", "log-
		     ical" 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 "palo".  state should be either
		     "on" or "off"

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to 

SEE ALSO
       fdisk(8), mkfs(8), The parted program is documented fully in  the  GNU
       partitioning software manual available via the Info system.

AUTHOR
       This  manual  page  was written by Timshel Knoll ,
       for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).



parted				 18 Mar, 2002			    PARTED(8)

UNIX/Linux commands referenced on this page:

1. cp
2. mkfs
3. make
4. at
5. resize
6. rm
7. as