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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

       -j, --json
	      displays JSON output

       -s, --script
	      never prompts for user intervention

       -f, --fix
	      automatically answer "fix" to exceptions in script mode

       -v, --version
	      displays the version

       -a alignment-type, --align alignment-type
	      Set alignment for newly created partitions, valid alignment
	      types are:

	      none   Use the minimum alignment allowed by the disk type.

	      cylinder
		     Align partitions to cylinders.

	      minimal
		     Use minimum alignment as given by the disk topology
		     information. This and the opt value will use layout
		     information provided by the disk to align the logical
		     partition table addresses to actual physical blocks on
		     the disks.	 The min value is the minimum alignment needed
		     to align the partition properly to physical blocks, which
		     avoids performance degradation.

	      optimal
		     Use optimum alignment as given by the disk topology
		     information. This aligns to a multiple of the physical
		     block size in a way that guarantees optimal performance.


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:

	      help [command]
		     Print general help, or help on command if specified.

	      align-check type partition
		     Check if partition satisfies the alignment constraint of
		     type.  type must be "minimal" or "optimal".

	      mklabel label-type
		     Create a new disklabel (partition table) of label-type.
		     label-type should be one of "aix", "amiga", "bsd", "dvh",
		     "gpt", "loop", "mac", "msdos", "pc98", or "sun".

	      mkpart [part-type name fs-type] start end
		     Create a new partition. part-type may be specified only
		     with msdos and dvh partition tables, it should be one of
		     "primary", "logical", or "extended".  name is required
		     for GPT partition tables and fs-type is optional.	fs-
		     type can be one of "btrfs", "ext2", "ext3", "ext4",
		     "fat16", "fat32", "hfs", "hfs+", "linux-swap", "ntfs",
		     "reiserfs", "udf", or "xfs".

	      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 double quotes, if necessary.  And depending on the
		     shell may need to also be wrapped in single quotes so
		     that the shell doesn't strip off the double quotes.

	      print print-type
		     Display the partition table.  print-type is optional, and
		     can be one of devices, free, list, or all.

	      quit   Exit from parted.

	      rescue start end
		     Rescue a lost partition that was located somewhere
		     between start and end.  If a partition is found, parted
		     will ask if you want to create an entry for it in the
		     partition table.

	      resizepart partition end
		     Change the end position of partition.  Note that this
		     does not modify any filesystem present in the partition.

	      rm partition
		     Delete 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 an LVM logical
		     volume if necessary.

	      set partition flag state
		     Change the state of the flag on partition to state.
		     Supported flags are: "boot", "root", "swap", "hidden",
		     "raid", "lvm", "lba", "legacy_boot", "irst", "msftres",
		     "esp", "chromeos_kernel", "bls_boot", "linux-home",
		     "no_automount", "bios_grub", and "palo".  state should be
		     either "on" or "off".

	      unit unit
		     Set unit as the unit to use when displaying locations and
		     sizes, and for interpreting those given by the user when
		     not suffixed with an explicit unit.  unit can be one of
		     "s" (sectors), "B" (bytes), "kB", "MB", "KiB", "MiB",
		     "GB", "GiB", "TB", "TiB", "%" (percentage of device
		     size), "cyl" (cylinders), "chs" (cylinders, heads,
		     sectors), or "compact" (megabytes for input, and a human-
		     friendly form for output).

	      toggle partition flag
		     Toggle the state of flag on partition.

	      type partition id or uuid
		     On MS-DOS set the type aka. partition id of partition to
		     id. The id is a value between "0x01" and "0xff". On GPT
		     the type-uuid of partition to uuid.

	      disk_set flag state
		     Change a flag on the disk to state. 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.
		     Supported flags are: "pmbr_boot" on GPT to enable the
		     boot flag on the GPT's protective MBR partition.

	      disk_toggle flag
		     Toggle the state of the disk flag.

	      version
		     Display version information and a copyright message.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to <bug-parted@gnu.org>

SEE ALSO
       fdisk(8), mkfs(8), The parted program is fully documented in the
       info(1) format GNU partitioning software manual.

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

parted			       2021 September 28		     PARTED(8)