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1. 0 0 5 disk_set command description 5 E C2ISPIOPS cisne innata DhE nS AIP AE 1 F FDL GNU Free Documentation License 15 further reading 2 e eee eee ee eee 14 G POULEKE codecs caetad ainia tip mE bI EtA EREE 1 a ca oI PE deyeeaenQontewlies E EAT 2 Cpl EAEE E E E E EE TN 2 help command description 00 6 history of this manual 23 25 invocation options 0 00 eee eee eee ee 5 A A O 1 license terms ri ar aa 2 mklabel command description 6 mkpart command description 6 Modes Of US o2 ccecse pace A acme pe nese 4 name command description 7 options at Invocation 0 eee eee 5 A date petite hhngetatasaeeten 1 parted description 00 cece ee eee eee il partitioning overview 0 eee eee eee eee 4 platforms supported eee e eee eee 2 print command description 8 quit command description 006 8 readline liada dio ee ese ane cl related documentation 00 eee ee 14 reporting DUES cid il required software 00 0 c eee eee eee eee ees il rescue command description 8 resizepart command description 9 rm command description 00 005 9 select command description 10 set command des2. 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 9 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 accidently deleted a partition with parted s rm command for example Example 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 Chapter 2 Using Parted 9 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 10 resizepart resizepart number end Command Moves the end position of partition number Note that th
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6. 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 e NTFS e reiserfs e ufs e btrfs For example the following creates 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 parted mkpart logical 0 0 692 1 Now we will show how to partition a low end flash device low end as of 2011 2012 For such devices you should use 4MiB aligned partitions This command creates a tiny place holder partition at the beginning and then uses all remaining space to create the partition you ll actually use parted s dev sdX mklabel msdos mkpart primary fat32 64s 4MiB mkpart primary fat32 4MiB 1s Note the use of to prevent the following 1s last sector indicator from being interpreted as an invalid command line option The above creates two empty par titions The first is
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8. GNU Parted User Manual GNU Parted version 3 2 15 June 2014 Andrew Clausen clausen gnu org Richard M Kreuter kreuter anduril rutgers edu Leslie Patrick Polzer polzer gnu org Copyright 1999 2011 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 3 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 ba 64 6 ttdsceey ide es ai ka e odevidatdevie ad 1 2 Using Patted ones clo vequiseue ceeydewuny ee a a a e 4 3 Related information 20 6 o 02080 cee a ee dod 14 A Copying This alentaloda dor RA 15 B This man al s Distr da ee iO iaa ie 23 IM Ls APA oren kekri tp i EERE RERS Dies ORs ad EAER whdRS oe 24 Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1 Introduction 1 1 Overview of GNU Parted GNU Parted is a program for creating and manipulating partition tables This documentation is written with the assumption that the reader has some under standing of partitioning and file systems 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 ba
9. T this flag identifies a UEFI System Partition On GPT it is an alias for boot 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 Chapter 2 Using Parted 11 root swap hidden raid LVM PALO PREP DIAG oo Mac this flag should be enabled if the partition is the root device to e used by Linux D oOo Mac this flag should be enabled if the partition is the swap device to e used by Linux MS DOS PC98 this flag can be enabled to hide partitions from Mi rosoft operating systems MS DOS this flag can be enabled to tell linux the partition is a software RAID partition MS DOS this flag can be enabled to tell linux the partition is a physical volume MS DOS this flag can be enabled so that the partition can be used by the Linux PA RISC boot loader palo MS DOS GPT 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 MS DOS Enable this to indicate that a partition can be used as a diagnostics recovery partition N O O 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 14 unit unit unit Command Selects the current default unit that Parted will use to
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12. 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 15 for details Index 24 Index Index A align check command description 5 B pugs Teporting s 005 3 ic dease ni eae bein teaka ase dl building parted cee eects 2 C command description align check 5 command description disk_set 5 command description help 00 6 command description mkindex 6 command description mkpart 6 command description name 45 4 command description print 8 command description quit 0006 8 command description rescue 000 8 command description resizepart 9 command description rm 00 e eee 9 command description select o o o oo o 10 command description SOb oooooommmmoo o 10 command description unit 6 11 command syntax i060 se cecay een aa cases ewes 5 COMMANAS A E E tt 4 commands detailed listing 5 commands OVerV eW cece eee eee eee 5 compiling parted 0 cece eee ee ee eee 2 contacting developers eee e eee eee 1 D description of parted 00 cece eee 1 detailed command listing
13. 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 legacy_boot GPT this flag is used to tell special purpose software that the GPT partition may be bootable 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 msftdata GPT This flag identifies partitions that contain Microsoft filesystems NTFS or FAT It may optionally be set on Linux filesystems to mimic the type of configuration created by parted 3 0 and earlier in which a separate Linux filesystem type code was not available on GPT disks This flag can only be removed within parted by replacing it with a competing flag such as boot or msftres msftres GPT This flag identifies a Microsoft Reserved partition which is used by Windows on GPT disks Note that this flag should not normally be set on Windows filesystem partitions those that contain NTFS or FAT filesystems irst MS DOS GPT this flag identifies an Intel Rapid Start Technology partition esp MS DOS GP
14. ck up your important files before running Parted 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 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 a
15. cription 005 10 software dependencies eee eee eee il supported platforms 0 0 0 eee eee eee 2 T terms of distribution 0 0 cece cena 2 U unit command description 60 11
16. 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 sector n bytes depending on the sector size often 512 byte kibibyte 1024 bytes mebibyte 1048576 bytes gibibyte 1073741824 bytes tebibyte 1099511627776 bytes kilobyte 1000 bytes megabyte 1000000 bytes gigabyte 1000000000 bytes terabyte 1000000000000 bytes Chapter 2 Using Parted 12 he 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 a suffix 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 a range of 500 KB when you specify the location in M and will select the nearest location in this range from the one you wro
17. ector 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 reiser s 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 msdos 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 14 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 15 Appendix A Copying This Manual A 1 GNU Free Documentation License Version 1 3 3 November 2008 Copyright 2000 2001 2002 2007 2008 Free Software Foundatio
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19. er the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License Version 1 3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections no Front Cover Texts and no Back Cover Texts A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License If you have Invariant Sections Front Cover Texts and Back Cover Texts replace the with Texts line with this with the Invariant Sections being list their titles with the Front Cover Texts being list and with the Back Cover Texts being list If you have Invariant Sections without Cover Texts or some other combination of the three merge those two alternatives to suit the situation If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code we recommend releas ing these examples in parallel under your 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
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21. hyphen commands do not Options h help display a help message tig script never prompt the user a alignment type align alignment type Set alignment for newly created partitions valid alignment types are none cylinder minimal and optimal y version display the version 2 4 Parted Session Commands GNU Parted provides the following commands Note that after version 2 4 the following commands were removed check cp mkfs mkpartfs move resize 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 status 1 otherwise including on older kernels for which alignment data is not avail able continue processing any remaining commands Without script print either N aligned or N not aligned Example parted align check minimal 1 1 aligned 2 4 2 disk_set disk_set flag state Command Changes a flag on the disk 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 Chapter 2 Using Parted 6 pmbr_boot GPT this flag enables the boot flag on the GPT s protective MBR partition The disk s flags are displa
22. is does not modify any filesystem present in the partition If you wish to do this you will need to use external tools such as resize2fs When growing a partition you will want to grow the filesystem afterwards but when shrinking you need to shrink the filesystem before the partition 2 4 11 rm rm number Command Removes the partition with number number If you accidently delete a partition with this command use mkpart to recover it Also you can use the gpart program see Chapter 3 Related information page 14 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 Chapter 2 Using Parted 10 2 4 12 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 2 4 13 set set number flag state Command Changes a flag on the partition with number number A flag
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24. nfigure 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 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 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 Chapter 1 Introduction 3 enable discover only support only reading probing reduces size considerably enable mtrace enable malloc debugging enable read only disable writing for debugging 1 5 1 Introduction If you want to run GNU Parted on a machine without GNU Linux installed or you want to modify a root or boot partition use GParted Live http gparted sourceforge net livecd php Chapter 2 Using Parted 4 2 U
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28. sing 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 commands For example parted dev sda mklabel gpt mkpart P1 ext3 1MiB 8MiB 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 mklabel gpt parted mkpart P1 ext3 1MiB 8MiB Unambiguous abbreviations are allowed For example you can type p instead of print and u instead of units 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 14 unit page 11 e
29. te 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 constraints 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 last sector of the disk Note that as of parted 2 4 when you specify start and or end values using IEC binary units like MiB GiB TiB etc parted treats those values as exact and equivalent to the same number specified in bytes i e with the B suffix in that it provides no helpful range of sloppiness Contrast that with a partition start request of 4GB which may actually resolve to some sector up to 500MB before or after that point Thus when creating a partition you should prefer to specify units of bytes B sectors s or IEC binary units like MiB but not MB GB etc 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 Chapter 2 Using Parted 13 parted unit chs print Disk geometry for dev hda 0 0 0 14946 225 62 BIOS cylinder head s
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31. unaligned and tiny with length less than 4MiB The second partition starts precisely at the 4MiB mark and extends to the end of the device The next step is typically to create a file system in the second partition mkfs vfat dev sdX2 2 4 6 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 2 Cheap flash drives will be with us for a long time to come and for them 1MiB alignment is not enough Use at least 4MiB aligned partitions For details see Arnd Bergman s article http http 1wn net Articles 428584 and its many comments Chapter 2 Using Parted 8 parted name 2 Secret Documents Set the name of partition 2 to Secret Documents 2 4 7 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 8 quit quit Command Quits Parted It is only after Parted exits that the Linux kernel knows about the changes
32. vailable 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 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 Chapter 1 Introduction 2 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 GNU Linux Linux versions 2 0 and up on Alpha x86 PCs PC98 Macintosh PowerPC Sun hardware GNU Hurd 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 co
33. xcept 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 sector at 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 With parted 2 4 and newer IEC binary units like MiB GiB TiB etc specify exact locations as well See IEC binary units page 12 If you don t give a parameter to a command Parted will prompt you for it For example parted mklabel New disk label type gpt 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 and mkpart Since many partitioning systems have complicated 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 Chapter 2 Using Parted 5 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 5 Options begin with a
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36. yed by the print command on the Disk Flags line They are also output as the last field of the disk information in machine mode parted disk_set pmbr_boot on Set the PMBR s boot flag 2 4 3 help help command Command Prints general help or help on command Example parted help mklabel Print help for the mklabel command 2 4 4 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 14 to recover any partitions Parted works on all partition tables label type must be one of these supported disk labels 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 5 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 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 7 support You may specify a file system type to set the appropriate partition code in
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