The usage of parted in command line and interactive mode

Parted is a program used to manipulate disk partitions, usually for partitions with a regular size of more than 2T, and can also be used for planning small partitions; it supports a variety of partition table formats, including MS-DOS (MBR) and GPT;, which is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks; the operation of the parted command takes effect in real time, and you should be careful every step of the operation.

Parted has two modes: command line and interactive

In interactive mode, enter one command at a time (command completion is supported), and then modify the disk immediately

Interaction can be disabled using the "- s" option

All operations of parted take effect in real time.

MBR and GPT are incompatible and cannot be converted into each other.

Usage: parted [OPTIONs] [DEVICE [COMMANDs [PARAMETER...]...]]

Interactive mode: parted [DEVICE]

Command line mode: parted [OPTIONs] DEVICE COMMANDs PARAMETER

Options:

-l,-- list: lists all partition layouts on all block devices

-s,-- script: avoid interaction with users; that is, turn off interaction

Subcommands: abbreviations are supported and case-insensitive (after version 2.4, the following commands have been removed: check, cp, mkfs, mkpartfs, move, resize)

Command line COMMAND

Print [devices | free | list | all |]: displays the partition table, including available devices, free space, all found partitions, or specific partitions

Unit UNIT: setting default unit

UNIT

S: sector (n bytes, depending on sector size, usually 512)

B: byte

KiB: kilobytes (1024 bytes)

MiB: megabytes (1048576 bytes)

GiB:gibibyte (1073741824 bytes)

TiB:tebibyte (1099511627776 bytes)

KB: kilobytes (1000 bytes)

MB: megabytes (1000000 bytes)

GB: gigabytes (1000000000 bytes)

TB: megabytes (1000000000000 bytes)

%: percentage of devices (between 0 and 100)

Cyl: cylindrical (related to BIOS CHS geometry)

Chs: cylindrical, head, sector addressing (related to BIOS CHS geometry)

Compact: this is a special unit, the default input is megabytes, and select a unit to represent the output in a compact readable format

Mklabel, mktable LABEL_TYPE: create a new partition table

LABEL_TYPE:

"aix", "amiga", "bsd", "dvh", "gpt", "loop", "mac", "msdos", "pc98", "sun"

Mkpart PART_TYPE [NAME] [FILESYSTEM_TYPE] START END [UNIT]: create a new partition (which can indicate the file system), indicating the starting location (the default unit is M)

PART_TYPE

"primary", "extended", "logical"

FILESYSTEM_TYPE

"btrfs", "ext2", "ext3", "ext4", "fat16", "fat32", "hfs", "hfs+", "linux-swap", "ntfs", "reiserfs", "xfs"

START,END: specifies the start / end position of the partition (offset from the beginning of the disk); its value can be integer or decimal, with the suffix UNIT

Supported UNIT: "s" (sectors), "B" (bytes), "kB", "MB", "MiB", "GB", "GiB", "TB", "TiB", "%" (percentage of device size), "compact", "- 1s" points to the last sector of the disk (a negative number is counted from the end of the disk)

Note: the parted command does not modify the / etc/fstab file; after the partition is created, the / etc/fstab file needs to be modified manually

Resizepart PART_NUMBER END: modify the location where the partition ends; that is, modify the partition size (does not modify any file systems that exist in the partition)

Rm PART_NUMBER: deleting partition

Note about 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 partition number 6, logical partitions numbered 7, 8, and 9 will be renumber to 6, 7, and 8, respectively; for example, this means that you must update the / etc/fstab file

Set PART_NUMBER TYPE STATUS: setting partition type and status

Disk_set TYPE STATUS: changing partition type and state

TYPE

"boot", "root", "swap", "hidden", "raid", "lvm", "lba", "legacy_boot", "palo"

STATUS

"on", "off"

Toggle PART TYPE: toggle partition type (append)

TYPE

Root:Linux root file system; this TYPE (Mac) should be enabled if the partition is the root device to be used by Linux

Swap:Linux swap (Mac)

Legacy_boot: used to inform proprietary software that this GPT partition is bootable (GPT)

Boot: boot from this partition (Mac, MS-DOS, PC98)

Bios_grub: enable it to record that the selected partition is a GRUB BIOS partition (GPT)

Raid: soft RAID (MS-DOS)

LVM:LVM PV (MS-DOS)

Msftdata: used to identify the partition (GPT) that contains the Microsoft file system (NTFS or FAT)

Msftres: used to identify the "Microsoft reserved partition" used by Windows, note that this flag (MS-DOS,GPT) should not normally be set on Windows file system partitions (partitions that contain NTFS or FAT file systems)

Irst: identifies Intel Quick start Technology Partition (MS-DOS, GPT)

Esp: identifies the UEFI system partition; on GPT, it is the boot alias (MS-DOS, GPT)

Hidden: identified to hide partitions from the Microsoft operating system (MS-DOS, PC98)

DIAG: enable it to indicate that a partition can be used as a diagnostic / recovery partition (MS-DOS)

Name PART_NUMBER NAME: sets / changes partition names; this COMMAND applies only to Mac, PC98, and GPT partition tables, with names enclosed in quotation marks

Rescue START END: rescue the missing partition between START and END; if the partition is found, the split will ask you if you want to create an entry for it in the partition table.

Interactive COMMAND: in interactive mode, enter one command at a time (command completion is supported), and then modify the disk immediately

Enter interactive: parted [DEVICE]

DEVICE: indicates the block device to be operated; the default is the first

Select DEVICE: select the specified block device as the current device to operate (default is / dev/sda); the device should usually be a Linux hard disk device, or it can be a partition, soft RAID device, or LVM logical volume

Unit UNIT: setting default unit

UNIT

"s" (sectors), "B" (bytes), "kB", "MB", "MiB", "GB", "GiB", "TB", "TiB", "%" (percentage of device size), "cyl" (cylinders), "chs" (cylinders, heads, sectors), "compact"

S: sector (n bytes, depending on sector size, usually 512)

Q, qu, qui, quit: exit Interactive parted; only after Parted exits will the Linux kernel know what changes Parted has made to disk

Help [COMMAND]: displays help information for a COMMAND; uses it in interactive mode

Example of parted command

Create a MBR partition table

# parted-s / dev/sdb mklabel msdos

Create a GPT partition table

# parted-s / dev/sdb mklabel gpt

Create a partition on the partition table and create a file system

# parted-s / dev/sdb mkpart primary ext4 0.0%

Create a gpt partition and allocate all the space of the hard disk to this partition. The file system is ext4.

# parted-s / dev/sdb mklabel gpt mkpart primary ext4 0.0%

Activate the partition

# parted-s / dev/sdb set 1 boot on

Set the partition name

# parted / dev/sdb name 1 'DATA_DISK'

Delete partition

# parted / dev/sdb rm 1

View available partitions

# parted / dev/sdb print devices