A partition manipulation program--parted

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, 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 sys-
tems, reorganising disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.

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 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 "fat16", "fat32", "ext2", "linux-swap" or "reis-
erfs".

mklabel label-type
Creates 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 (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 begin-
ning 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, PC98, and GPT 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"