parted Command Examples

A partition manipulation program. See also: parted-interactive, partprobe. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_node/Invoking-Parted.html.

• List partitions on all block devices:

sudo parted {{[-l|--list]}}

• Create a new partition table of the specified label-type:

sudo parted {{/dev/sdX}} {{[-s|--script]}} mklabel {{aix|amiga|bsd|dvh|gpt|loop|mac|msdos|pc98|sun}}

• Create a new gpt partition table with a 500MiB boot partition and give the rest for the system partition:

sudo parted {{/dev/sdX}} {{[-s|--script]}} mklabel gpt mkpart primary 0% 500MiB mkpart primary 500MiB 100%

• Start interactive mode with the specified disk selected:

sudo parted {{/dev/sdX}}

• Display help:

parted {{[-h|--help]}}