GNU Parted User Manual
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1. 9 command description move ee ee 9 command description name 6 10 command description print 4 10 command description quit 0 10 command description rescue 0 06 10 command description resize o ooooooooo o 11 command description rm 000 12 command description select 4 12 command description set 0 ee eee 12 command description unit 6 13 command syntax sico or 6 commands o eroe i rr ead Rhee ood ed 5 commands detailed listing 6 commands Overview eee ereere rernu 6 compiling parted eee e eee eee eee eee 2 contacting developers 0000005 i cp command description 0 04 T D description of parted 00 cece eee il detailed command listing 0 4 6 E G2QISPTOSS iss resns i piae dhe eae dead PENE RES Bau REE 1 F FDL GNU Free Documentation License 16 further reading cs cise seca rene vernonia mes 15 24 PCULEXt EEE E be ensmiedahieesetendadaate 1 2 niser esere misas eia E DT AE S 2 ao acs E E E EET 2 help command description 2045 7 history of this manual 4 23 invocation options ee eee eee eee 6 AS essy 22 A nate ek aeens 1 license terMS 2 cece eee eee eee eee eeee 2 mkfs2. disable fs disable all file system support disable nls turns off native language support This is useful for use with old versions of glibc or a trimmed down version of glibc suitable for rescue disks disable shared turns off shared libraries This may be necessary for use with old versions of GNU libc if you get a compile error about a spilled register Also useful for boot rescue disks disable Werror ignore warning messages in compilation enable discover only support only reading probing reduces size considerably enable mtrace enable malloc debugging enable read only disable writing for debugging 1 6 Using static binaries of GNU Parted 1 6 1 Introduction If you want to run GNU Parted on a machine without GNU Linux installed or you want to resize a root or boot partition you will need to use a boot disk Special boot disk images for GNU Parted used to be available but with the emergence of a plethora of rescue disks and Live CDs that all include GNU Parted this is no longer necessary However please note that these disks often ship with out of date versions of Parted To compensate for this a static binary of the latest GNU Parted version is available which you can use thus 1 6 2 Creating the Parted disk Boot your system Unpack the tarball resulting in a file called parted static Insert a floppy Do a low level format on it on GNU Linux this can be achieved with the tool
3. 2 4 17 set set number flag state Command Changes a flag on the partition with number number 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 bios_grub GPT Enable this to record that the selected partition is a GRUB BIOS partition boot Mac MS DOS PC98 should be enabled if you want to boot off the partition The semantics vary between disk labels For MS DOS disk labels only one partition can be bootable If you are installing LILO on a partition that partition must be bootable For PC98 disk labels all ext2 partitions must be bootable this is enforced by Parted Iba MS DOS this flag can be enabled to tell MS DOS MS Windows 9x and MS Windows ME based operating systems to use Linear LBA mode root Mac this flag should be enabled if the partition is the root device to be used by Linux Chapter 2 Using Parted 13 swap Mac this flag should be enabled if the partition is the swap device to be used by Linux hidden MS DOS PC98 this flag can be enabled to hide partitions from Mi crosoft operating systems raid MS DOS this flag can be enabled to tell linux the partition is a software RAID partition LVM MS DOS this flag can be enabled to tell linux the partition is a physical volume PALO MS DOS this flag can be enabled so that the partition can be
4. a alignment type align alignment type Set alignment for newly created partitions valid alignment types are none cylinder minimal and optimal ap version display the version 2 4 Parted Session Commands GNU Parted provides the following commands 2 4 1 align check align check align type n Command Determine whether the starting sector of partition n meets the disk s selected align ment criteria align type must be minimal optimal or an abbreviation When in script mode if the partition does not meet the alignment requirement exit with sta tus 1 otherwise including on older kernels for which alignment data is not available continue processing any remaining commands Without script print either N aligned or N not aligned Example parted align check minimal 1 1 aligned Chapter 2 Using Parted 7 2 4 2 check check number Command Checks if the file system on partition number has any errors Example parted check 1 Check the file system on partition 1 2 4 3 Cp cp from device from number to number Command Copies the file system on the partition from number to partition to number deleting the original contents of the destination partition An optional device parameter from device can be given which specifies which device the source partition is on Supported file systems e ext2 provided the destination partition is larger than the source par
5. fd format from the util linux package This is basically a sanity check because floppy disks often contain bad blocks 6 Create a file system Example parted dev fd0 mklabel loop mkpartfs ext2 0 1 4 See Se Download parted static VERSION tgz from ftp ftp gnu org gnu parted staticl Chapter 1 Introduction 7 Mount the floppy disk e g mount t ext2 dev fd0 mnt floppy 8 Copy parted static to the floppy e g cp parted static mnt floppy 9 Unmount the floppy e g umount mnt floppy 1 6 3 Using the Parted disk 1 Choose a rescue disk that suits you 2 Boot off your rescue disk Mount the disk you copied Parted onto 3 Run Parted For example cd mnt floppy parted static Chapter 2 Using Parted 5 2 Using Parted 2 1 Introduction to Partitioning Unfortunately partitioning your disk is rather complicated This is because there are in teractions between many different systems that need to be taken into consideration This manual used to introduce the reader to these systems and their working This content has moved to the GNU Storage Guide 2 2 Using GNU Parted Parted has two modes command line and interactive Parted should always be started with parted device where device is the hard disk device to edit If you re lazy and omit the DEVICE argument Parted will attempt to guess which device you want In command line mode this is followed by one or more
6. command description 04 8 mklabel command description 7 mkpart command description 8 mkpartfs command description 9 modes of US 6 eee eee eee eee eee eee 5 move command descriptioN 0oooooccocooo 9 name command description 10 options at invocation cee eee eee 6 O 1 parted description 2 cc eee eee eee 1 partitioning Overview 00 cee eee eee 5 platforms supported eee e eee eee 2 print command description 10 quit command description 10 TA dE aims ata ERRA 1 related documentation 000s e eee 15 reporting DUS 0 0 ses rra a teed ede ses 1 Index required software 0 cece eee eee eee eee 1 rescue command description 10 resize command description dl resizing root device ooooccoocccorccncccr eee 3 rm command description 2045 12 S select command description 12 set command description 00005 12 software dependencies 2eeeee ee eee 1 25 Static Dinary i cesiseci a reprit peana ina a bed 3 supported platforms 0 0c eee eee ee 2 terms of distribution 0 cece eee eee 2 unit command description 066 13 unsupported platforms eee eee e
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9. a suffix Chapter 2 Using Parted 14 If no suffix is given then the default unit is assumed Parted will compute sensible ranges for the locations you specify e g a range of 500 MB when you specify the location in G and will select the nearest location in this range from the one you wrote that satisfies constraints from both the operation the filesystem being worked on the disk label other partitions and so on Use the sector unit s to specify exact locations if they do not satisfy all onstraints Parted will ask you for the nearest solution Note that negative numbers count back from the end of the disk with 1s pointing to the end of the disk Example parted unit compact parted print Disk geometry for dev hda OkB 123GB Disk label type msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32kB 1078MB 1077MB primary reiserfs boot 2 1078MB 2155MB 1078MB primary linux swap 3 2155MB 123GB 121GB extended 5 2155MB 7452MB 5297MB logical reiserfs parted unit chs print Disk geometry for dev hda 0 0 0 14946 225 62 BIOS cylinder head sector geometry 14946 255 63 Each cylinder is 8225kB Disk label type msdos Number Start End Type File system Flags 1 0 1 0 130 254 62 primary reiserfs boot 2 131 0 0 261 254 62 primary linux swap 3 262 0 0 14945 254 62 extended 5 262 2 0 905 254 62 logical reiserfs parted unit mb print Disk geometry for dev hda OMB 122942MB Disk label type msdo
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15. used by the Linux PA RISC boot loader palo PREP MS DOS this flag can be enabled so that the partition can be used as a PReP boot partition on PowerPC PReP or IBM RS6K CHRP hardware The print command displays all enabled flags for each partition Example parted set 1 boot on Set the boot flag on partition 1 2 4 18 unit unit unit Command Selects the current default unit that Parted will use to display locations and capacities on the disk and to interpret those given by the user if they are not suffixed by an unit unit may be one of s sector n bytes depending on the sector size often 512 B byte kB kilobyte 1000 bytes MB megabyte 1000000 bytes GB gigabyte 1000000000 bytes TB terabyte 1000000000000 bytes H percentage of the device between 0 and 100 cyl cylinders related to the BIOS CHS geometry chs cylinders heads sectors addressing related to the BIOS CHS geometry compact This is a special unit that defaults to megabytes for input and picks a unit that gives a compact human readable representation for output The default unit apply only for the output and when no unit is specified after an input number Input numbers can be followed by an unit without any space or other character between them in which case this unit apply instead of the default unit for this particular number but CHS and cylinder units are not supported as
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17. 2 e fat16 fat32 e linux swap e reiserfs if libreiserfs is installed Example parted mkfs 2 fat32 Make a fat32 file system on partition 2 2 4 7 mkpart mkpart part type fs type name start end Command Creates a new partition without creating a new file system on that partition This is useful for creating partitions for file systems or LVM etc that Parted doesn t support You may specify a file system type to set the appropriate partition code in the partition table for the new partition fs type is required for data partitions i e non extended partitions start and end are the offset from the beginning of the disk that is the distance from the start of the disk part type is one of primary extended or logical and may be specified only with msdos or dvh partition tables A name must be specified for a gpt partition table Neither part type nor name may be used with a sun partition table fs type must be one of these supported file systems e ext2 e fatl6 fat32 e hfs hfs hfsx e linux swap Chapter 2 Using Parted 9 e NTFS e reiserfs e ufs Example parted mkpart logical 0 0 692 1 Create a logical partition that will contain an ext2 file system The partition will start at the beginning of the disk and end 692 1 megabytes into the disk 2 4 8 mkpartfs mkpart s part type fs type start end Command Creates a new partition of type part type wit
18. GNU Parted User Manual GNU Parted version 2 1 10 December 2009 Andrew Clausen clausen gnu org Richard M Kreuter kreuter anduril rutgers edu Leslie Patrick Polzer polzer gnu org Copyright 1999 2009 Free Software Foundation Inc Permission is granted to copy distribute and or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License Version 1 1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections with no Front Cover Texts and with no Back Cover Texts A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License Short Contents 1 bo 26 6 22dsceey ide es abibedede odevidatdeviead 1 2 Using Part d wanes oho vequiee ue pepe dee dde 5 3 Related information 2 6 o 02080 cee a e 15 A Copying This alentaloda coda ia as 16 B This man al s Distr da ea io iaa seo ee 23 IMB APA oren kekri tp o EERE Adee GAs ORs ad SAGE ESAS Se 24 Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1 Introduction 1 1 Overview of GNU Parted GNU Parted is a program for creating destroying resizing checking and copying partitions and the file systems on them This is useful for creating space for new operating systems for reorganizing disk usage for copying data between hard disks and for disk imaging replicating an installation on another computer This documentation is written with the assumption that the reader has some under standing of partitioning and file
19. commands For example parted dev sda resize 1 52Mb 104Mb mkfs 2 fat16 Options like help can only be specified on the command line In interactive mode commands are entered one at a time at a prompt and modify the disk immediately For example parted resize 1 52 0005Mb 104 5Mb parted mkfs 2 fat16 6699 Unambiguous abbreviations are allowed For example you can type p instead of print and resi instead of resize Commands can be typed either in English or your native language if your language has been translated This may create ambiguities Commands are case insensitive Numbers indicating partition locations can be whole numbers or decimals The suffix selects the unit which may be one of those described in Section 2 4 18 unit page 13 except CHS and compact If no suffix is given then the default unit is assumed Negative numbers count back from the end of the disk with 1s indicating the end of the disk Parted will compute sensible ranges for the locations you specify e g a range of 500 MB when you specify the location in G Use the sector unit s to specify exact locations If you don t give a parameter to a command Parted will prompt you for it For example parted resize 1 Start 0Gb End 40Gb Parted will always warn you before doing something that is potentially dangerous unless the command is one of those that is inherently dangerous viz rm mklabel a
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22. ently deleted a partition with parted s rm command for example Example Chapter 2 Using Parted 11 parted print Disk geometry for dev hdc 0 000 8063 507 megabytes Disk label type msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0 031 8056 032 primary ext3 parted rm Partition number 1 parted print Disk geometry for dev hdc 0 000 8063 507 megabytes Disk label type msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags OUCH We deleted our ext3 partition Parted comes to the rescue parted rescue Start 0 End 8056 Information A ext3 primary partition was found at 0 031MB gt 8056 030MB Do you want to add it to the partition table Yes No Cancel y parted print Disk geometry for dev hdc 0 000 8063 507 megabytes Disk label type msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0 031 8056 032 primary ext3 It s back 2 4 14 resize resize number start end Command Resizes the partition with number number The partition will start start from the beginning of the disk and end end from the beginning of the disk resize never changes the partition number Extended partitions can be resized only so long as the new extended partition completely contains all logical partitions Note that Parted can manipulate partitions whether or not they have been defrag mented so you do not need to defragment the disk before using Parted Supported file systems e ext2 restriction the new start must be the
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24. h a new file system of type fs type on it The new partition will start start megabytes and end end megabytes from the beginning of the disk Do not use this command to recover a deleted partition use mkpart instead Using this command is discouraged Instead use mkpart to create an empty partition and then use external tools like mke2fs 8 to create the filesystem part type is one of primary extended logical Extended and logical are only used for msdos and dvh disk labels fs type must be one of these supported file systems e ext2 e fat16 fat32 e linux swap e reiserfs if libreiserfs is installed Example parted mkpartfs logical ext2 440 670 Make a logical partition and write an ext2 file system starting 440 megabytes and ending 670 megabytes from the beginning of the disk 2 4 9 move move number start end Command Moves partition on the disk by moving its beginning to start You can t move a partition so that the old and new positions overlap That is you can only move partitions into free space If you want to resize a partition in place use resize Move never changes the partition number Supported file systems e ext2 provided the destination partition is larger than the source partition e fat16 fat32 e linux swap e reiserfs if libreiserfs is installed Example parted move 2 150M 500M Move the partition numbered 2 so that it begins 150 megabytes from the start of the disk and ends 500 megabytes fro
25. m the start Chapter 2 Using Parted 10 2 4 10 name name number name Command Sets the name for the partition number GPT Mac MIPS and PC98 only The name can be placed in quotes Example parted name 2 Secret Documents Set the name of partition 2 to Secret Documents 2 4 11 print print number Command Displays the partition table on the device parted is editing or detailed information about a particular partition Example parted print Disk geometry for dev hda 0 000 2445 679 megabytes Disk label type msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0 031 945 000 primary fat32 boot lba 2 945 000 2358 562 primary ext2 3 2358 562 2445 187 primary linux swap parted print 1 Minor 1 Flags boot lba File System fat32 Size 945 000Mb 0 Minimum size 84 361Mb 0 Maximum size 2445 679Mb 100 2 4 12 quit quit Command Quits Parted It is only after Parted exits that the Linux kernel knows about the changes Parted has made to the disks However the changes caused by typing your commands will probably be made to the disk immediately after typing a command However the operating system s cache and the disk s hardware cache may delay this 2 4 13 rescue rescue start end Command Rescue a lost partition that used to be located approximately between start and end If such a partition is found Parted will ask you if you want to create a partition for it This is useful if you accid
26. nd mkfs For example if you attempt to shrink a partition too much i e by more than the free space available Parted will automatically reduce the shrinkage so that the partition is the smallest it can be without losing data If this size is significantly different from the size requested Parted will warn you Since many partitioning systems have complicated Chapter 2 Using Parted 6 constraints Parted will usually do something slightly different to what you asked For example create a partition starting at 10 352Mb not 10 4Mb If the calculated values differ too much Parted will ask you for confirmation Currently ext3 filesystem functionality does not work To manage ext3 type filesystems use tools like resize2fs or mke2fs Note that the currently supported ext2 filesystem will be deprecated once ext3 support is finalized Further note that ext3 support will have limited functionality that is yet to be defined Use tools like resize2fs 8 and mke2fs 8 to manage these types of filesystems 2 3 Command Line Options When invoked from the command line Parted supports the following syntax parted option device command argument Available options and commands follow For detailed explanations of the use of Parted commands see Section 2 4 Command explanations page 6 Options begin with a hyphen commands do not Options h help display a help message tig script never prompt the user
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28. of Parted If you re installing or compiling Parted yourself you ll need to have some other programs installed If you are compiling Parted you will need both the normal and devel packages of these programs installed e libuuid part of the e2fsprogs package If you don t have this you can get it from http web mit edu tytso www linux e2fsprogs html If you want to compile Parted and e2fsprogs note that you will need to make install and make install libs e2fsprogs e GNU Readline optional available from ftp ftp gnu org gnu readline If you are compiling Parted and you don t have readline you can disable Parted s readline support with the disable readline option for configure Chapter 1 Introduction 2 e GNU gettext or compatible software for compilation if internationalisation support is desired ftp ftp gnu org gnu gettext e libreiserfs if you want reiserfs support http reiserfs osdn org ua Note that parted will automatically detect libreiserfs at runtime and enable reiserfs support libreiserfs is new and hasn t been widely tested yet 1 3 Platforms on which GNU Parted runs Hopefully this list will grow a lot If you do not have one of these platforms then you can use a rescue disk and a static binary of GNU Parted See Section 1 6 Static binaries page 3 GNU Linux Linux versions 2 0 and up on Alpha x86 PCs PC98 Macintosh PowerPC Sun hardware GNU Hurd GNU libc 2 1 or higher is re
29. quired You can probably use older versions by using the disable nls option See Section 1 5 Compiling page 2 Note I think we have now dropped this requirement TODO check if libc 2 0 works 1 4 Terms of distribution for GNU Parted GNU Parted is free software covered by the GNU General Public License Version 2 This should have been included with the Parted distribution in the COPYING file If not write to the Free Software Foundation Inc 51 Franklin St Fifth Floor Boston MA 02110 1301 USA Libparted is considered part of GNU Parted It is covered by the GNU General Public License It is NOT released under the GNU Lesser General Public License LGPL 1 5 Building GNU Parted If you want to compile GNU Parted this is generally done with configure make However there are a few options for configure without readline turns off use of readline This is useful for making rescue disks etc where few libraries are available disable debug don t include assertions disable dynamic loading disables dynamic loading of some libraries only libreiserfs for now although we hope to expand this Dynamic loading is useful because it allows you to Chapter 1 Introduction 3 reuse libparted shared libraries even when you don t know if some libraries will be available It has a small overhead mainly linking with libdl so it may be useful to disable it on bootdisks if you don t need the flexibility
30. s Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 OMB 1078MB 1077MB primary reiserfs boot 2 1078MB 2155MB 1078MB primary linux swap 3 2155MB 122935MB 120780MB extended 5 2155MB 7452MB 5297MB logical reiserfs Chapter 3 Related information 15 3 Related information If you want to find out more information please see the GNU Parted web site These files in the Parted distribution contain further information e ABOUT NLS information about using Native Language Support and the Free Transla tion Project e AUTHORS who wrote what e ChangeLog record of changes made to Parted e COPYING the GNU General Public License the terms under which GNU Parted may be distributed e COPYING DOC the GNU Free Documentation Licence the term under which Parted s documentation may be distributed e INSTALL how to compile and install Parted and most other free software Appendix A Copying This Manual 16 Appendix A Copying This Manual A 1 GNU Free Documentation License Version 1 1 March 2000 Copyright 2000 2009 Free Software Foundation Inc 51 Franklin St Fifth Floor Boston MA 02110 1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document but changing it is not allowed 0 PREAMBLE The purpose of this License is to make a manual textbook or other written document free in the sense of freedom to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it with or
31. same as the old start fat16 fat32 hfs hfs hfsx restriction the new start must be the same as the old start and the new end must be smaller than the old end linux swap reiserfs if libreiserfs is installed Example parted resize 3 200M 850M Resize partition 3 so that it begins 200 megabytes and ends 850 megabytes from the beginning of the disk Chapter 2 Using Parted 12 2 4 15 rm rm number Command Removes the partition with number number If you accidently delete a partition with this command use mkpart not mkpartfs to recover it Also you can use the gpart program see Chapter 3 Related information page 15 to recover damaged disk labels Note for msdos disk labels if you delete a logical partition all logical partitions with a larger partition number will be renumbered For example if you delete a logical partition with a partition number of 6 then logical partitions that were number 7 8 and 9 would be renumbered to 6 7 and 8 respectively This means for example that you have to update etc fstab on GNU Linux systems Example parted rm 3 Remove partition 3 2 4 16 select select device Command Selects the device device for Parted to edit The device can be a Linux hard disk device a partition a software RAID device or LVM logical volume Example parted select dev hdb Select dev hdb the slave device on the first ide controller on Linux as the device to edit
32. systems If you want to learn more about these the upcoming GNU Storage Guide is recommended reading GNU Parted was designed to minimize the chance of data loss For example it was designed to avoid data loss during interruptions like power failure and performs many safety checks However there could be bugs in GNU Parted so you should back up your important files before running Parted Also note that reiserfs support relies on libreiserfs which does not fulfil the aforementioned requirement The same holds for any external tools like ntfsresize The GNU Parted homepage is http www gnu org software parted The library and frontend themselves can be downloaded from ftp ftp gnu org gnu parted You can also find a listing of mailing lists notes for contributing and more useful information on the web site Please send bug reports to bug parted gnu org When sending bug reports please include the version of GNU Parted Please include the output from these commands for disk dev hda parted dev hda print unit s print unit chs print Feel free to ask for help on this list just check that your question isn t answered here first If you don t understand the documentation please tell us so we can explain it better General philosophy is if you need to ask for help then something needs to be fixed so you and others don t need to ask for help Also we d love to hear your ideas 1 2 Software Required for the use
33. tition e fat16 fat32 e linux swap equivalent to mkswap on destination partition e reiserfs if libreiserfs is installed Example parted cp dev hdb 2 3 Copy partition 2 of dev hdb i e dev hdb2 to partition on 3 on the device Parted was loaded with destroying the original contents of partition 3 2 4 4 help help command Command Prints general help or help on command Example parted help resize Print help for the resize command 2 4 5 mklabel mklabel label type Command Creates a new disk label of type label type The new disk label will have no parti tions This command normally won t technically destroy your data but it will make it basically unusable and you will need to use the rescue command see Chapter 3 Re lated information page 15 to recover any partitions Parted works on all partition tables label type must be one of these supported disk labels l Everyone seems to have a different word for disk label these are all the same thing partition table partition map Chapter 2 Using Parted 8 e bsd e loop raw disk access e gpt e mac e msdos e pc98 e sun Example parted mklabel msdos Create an MS DOS disk label This is still the most common disk label for PCs 2 4 6 mkfs mkfs number fs type Command Makes a file system fs type on partition number destroying all data that resides on that partition Supported file systems e ext
34. ur choice of free software license such as the GNU General Public License to permit their use in free software Appendix B This manual s history 23 Appendix B This manual s history This manual was based on the file USER included in GNU Parted version 1 4 22 source distribution The GNU Parted source distribution is available at ftp gnu org gnu parted Initial Texinfo formatting by Richard M Kreuter 2002 Maintainance by Andrew Clausen from 2002 to 2005 and by Leslie P Polzer from July 2005 onwards This manual is distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1 1 or later at your discretion any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections with no Front Cover Texts and with no Back Cover Texts See Appendix A Copying This Manual page 16 for details Index Index A align check command description 6 B bugs reporting 0 02 eee eee eee 1 building parted 0 eee eee eee 2 C check command description T command description align check 6 command description check ooo ooooo 7 command description cp eee eee ee ee fi command description help 20004 T command description mkfs 00 8 command description mkindex T command description mkpart 8 command description mkpartfs
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