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GNU Parted User Manual
**********************
This file documents the use of GNU Parted, a program for creating and
manipulating partition tables.
This document applies roughly to version *3.1* of GNU Parted.
The original version was written by Andrew Clausen in text format.
Richard M. Kreuter translated it into Texinfo format in 2002, to be
heavily edited by Leslie P. Polzer in 2006.
* Menu:
* Introduction:: Overview
* Using Parted:: Partitioning a Hard Drive
* Related information:: Further reading on related topics
* Copying This Manual:: How to make copies of this manual
* History:: This manual's history
* Concept index:: Concept index
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1 Introduction
**************
* Menu:
* Overview:: GNU Parted and prerequisite knowledge
* Software Required:: GNU Parted's software dependencies
* Supported Platforms:: Where you can use GNU Parted
* License:: What you may and may not do with GNU Parted
* Compiling:: How to build GNU Parted
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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 understanding 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 back 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 AT 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 :-)
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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:
* 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.
* 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'.
* GNU gettext (or compatible software) for compilation, if
internationalisation support is desired.
<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext>;
* 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.
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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
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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).
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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 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.
'--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>;.
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2 Using Parted
**************
* Menu:
* Partitioning:: Disk partitioning in context
* Running Parted:: Partitioning with Parted
* Invoking Parted:: Parted's invocation options and commands
* Command explanations:: Full explanation of parted's commands
File: parted.info, Node: Partitioning, Next: Running Parted, Up: Using Parted
2.1 Introduction to Partitioning
================================
Unfortunately, partitioning your disk is rather complicated. This is
because there are interactions 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.
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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 *note unit::, 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 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 *Note IEC binary units::.
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.
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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 *note Command explanations::. Options
begin with a hyphen, commands do not:
Options:
'-h'
'--help'
display a help message
'-s'
'--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.
'-v'
'--version'
display the version
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2.4 Parted Session Commands
===========================
GNU Parted provides the following commands:
* Menu:
* align-check::
* disk_set::
* help::
* mklabel::
* mkpart::
* name::
* print::
* quit::
* rescue::
* resizepart::
* rm::
* select::
* set::
* unit::
Note that after version 2.4, the following commands were removed:
check, cp, mkfs, mkpartfs, move, resize.
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2.4.1 align-check
-----------------
-- Command: align-check ALIGN-TYPE N
Determine whether the starting sector of partition N meets the
disk's selected alignment 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 available), continue processing any remaining commands.
Without '--script', print either 'N aligned' or 'N not aligned'.
Example:
(parted) align-check minimal 1
1 aligned
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2.4.2 disk_set
--------------
-- Command: disk_set FLAG STATE
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:
'pmbr_boot'
(GPT) - this flag enables the boot flag on the GPT's
protective MBR partition.
The disk's flags are displayed 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.
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2.4.3 help
----------
-- Command: help [COMMAND]
Prints general help, or help on COMMAND.
Example:
(parted) help mklabel
Print help for the mklabel command.
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2.4.4 mklabel
-------------
-- Command: mklabel LABEL-TYPE
Creates a new disk label, of type LABEL-TYPE. The new disk label
will have no partitions. 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 (*note Related information::)
to recover any partitions. Parted works on all partition tables.
(1)
LABEL-TYPE must be one of these supported disk labels:
* bsd
* loop (raw disk access)
* gpt
* mac
* msdos
* pc98
* sun
Example:
(parted) mklabel msdos
Create an MS-DOS disk label. This is still the most common disk
label for PCs.
---------- Footnotes ----------
(1) Everyone seems to have a different word for "disk label" -- these
are all the same thing: partition table, partition map.
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2.4.5 mkpart
------------
-- Command: mkpart [PART-TYPE FS-TYPE NAME] START END
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:
* ext2
* fat16, fat32
* hfs, hfs+, hfsx
* linux-swap
* NTFS
* reiserfs
* ufs
* btrfs
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.
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2.4.6 name
----------
-- Command: name NUMBER NAME
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'.
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2.4.7 print
-----------
-- Command: print [NUMBER]
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%)
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2.4.8 quit
----------
-- Command: quit
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.
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2.4.9 rescue
------------
-- Command: rescue START END
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
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 ->
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! :)
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2.4.10 resizepart
-----------------
-- Command: resizepart NUMBER END
Moves the END position of partition NUMBER. Note that this 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.
File: parted.info, Node: rm, Next: select, Prev: resizepart, Up: Command explanations
2.4.11 rm
---------
-- Command: rm NUMBER
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 (*note Related information::) 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.
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2.4.12 select
-------------
-- Command: select DEVICE
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.
File: parted.info, Node: set, Next: unit, Prev: select, Up: Command explanations
2.4.13 set
----------
-- Command: set NUMBER FLAG STATE
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.
'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).
'lba'
(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.
'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 Microsoft 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 used by the Linux/PA-RISC boot loader, palo.
'PREP'
(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.
'DIAG'
(MS-DOS) - Enable this to indicate that a partition can be
used as a diagnostics / recovery partition.
The print command displays all enabled flags for each partition.
Example:
(parted) set 1 boot on
Set the 'boot' flag on partition 1.
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2.4.14 unit
-----------
-- Command: unit UNIT
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
'KiB'
kibibyte (1024 bytes)
'MiB'
mebibyte (1048576 bytes)
'GiB'
gibibyte (1073741824 bytes)
'TiB'
tebibyte (1099511627776 bytes)
'kB'
kilobyte (1000 bytes)
'MB'
megabyte (1000000 bytes)
'GB'
gigabyte (1000000000 bytes)
'TB'
terabyte (1000000000000 bytes)
'%'
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
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 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: 0kB - 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: 0MB - 122942MB
Disk label type: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 0MB 1078MB 1077MB primary reiserfs boot
2 1078MB 2155MB 1078MB primary linux-swap
3 2155MB 122935MB 120780MB extended
5 2155MB 7452MB 5297MB logical reiserfs
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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:
* 'ABOUT-NLS' - information about using Native Language Support, and
the Free Translation Project.
* 'AUTHORS' - who wrote what.
* 'ChangeLog' - record of changes made to Parted.
* 'COPYING' - the GNU General Public License, the terms under which
GNU Parted may be distributed.
* 'COPYING.DOC' - the GNU Free Documentation Licence, the term under
which Parted's documentation may be distributed.
* 'INSTALL' -- how to compile and install Parted, and most other free
software
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Appendix A Copying This Manual
******************************
* Menu:
* GNU Free Documentation License:: License for copying this manual
File: parted.info, Node: GNU Free Documentation License, Up: Copying This Manual
A.1 GNU Free Documentation License
==================================
Version 1.3, 3 November 2008
Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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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. *Note Copying This
Manual::, for details.
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Index
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* Menu:
* align-check, command description: align-check. (line 6)
* bugs, reporting: Overview. (line 6)
* building parted: Compiling. (line 6)
* command description, align-check: align-check. (line 6)
* command description, disk_set: disk_set. (line 6)
* command description, help: help. (line 6)
* command description, mkindex: mklabel. (line 6)
* command description, mkpart: mkpart. (line 6)
* command description, name: name. (line 6)
* command description, print: print. (line 6)
* command description, quit: quit. (line 6)
* command description, rescue: rescue. (line 6)
* command description, resizepart: resizepart. (line 6)
* command description, rm: rm. (line 6)
* command description, select: select. (line 6)
* command description, set: set. (line 6)
* command description, unit: unit. (line 6)
* command syntax: Command explanations. (line 6)
* commands: Using Parted. (line 6)
* commands, detailed listing: Command explanations. (line 6)
* commands, overview: Invoking Parted. (line 6)
* compiling parted: Compiling. (line 6)
* contacting developers: Overview. (line 6)
* description of parted: Overview. (line 6)
* detailed command listing: Command explanations. (line 6)
* disk_set, command description: disk_set. (line 6)
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* libuuid: Software Required. (line 6)
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* mklabel, command description: mklabel. (line 6)
* mkpart, command description: mkpart. (line 6)
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* name, command description: name. (line 6)
* options at invocation: Invoking Parted. (line 6)
* overview: Overview. (line 6)
* parted description: Overview. (line 6)
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* platforms, supported: Supported Platforms. (line 6)
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* rm, command description: rm. (line 6)
* select, command description: select. (line 6)
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