parted
parted
A program for creating, destroying, resizing, checking and copying partitions
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 | |||||||||
-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:
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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:
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REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-parted>
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Timshel Knoll <timshel>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).