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Problem

How to use the parted command: A partition manipulation program. See also: parted, partprobe. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html>.

Solution

parted — A partition manipulation program. See also: parted, partprobe. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html>.

Start interactive mode with the specified disk selected:

sudo parted {{/dev/sdX}}

[Interactive] Show partition information in interactive mode:

print

[Interactive] Select a disk in interactive mode:

select {{/dev/sdX}}

[Interactive] Create a 16 GB partition with the specified filesystem in interactive mode (GPT partition table):

mkpart {{partition_name}} {{btrfs|ext2|ext3|ext4|fat16|fat32|hfs|hfs+|linux-swap|ntfs|reiserfs|udf|xfs}} {{0%}} {{16G}}

[Interactive] Create a 16 GB partition with the specified filesystem in interactive mode (MBR partition table):

mkpart {{primary|logical|extended}} {{btrfs|ext2|ext3|ext4|fat16|fat32|hfs|hfs+|linux-swap|ntfs|reiserfs|udf|xfs}} {{0%}} {{16G}}

[Interactive] Resize a partition in interactive mode:

resizepart {{/dev/sdXN}} {{end_position_of_partition}}

[Interactive] Remove a partition in interactive mode:

rm {{/dev/sdXN}}

[Interactive] Display help:

Code Snippets

Start interactive mode with the specified disk selected

sudo parted {{/dev/sdX}}

[Interactive] Show partition information in interactive mode

print

[Interactive] Select a disk in interactive mode

select {{/dev/sdX}}

[Interactive] Create a 16 GB partition with the specified filesystem in interactive mode (`GPT` partition table)

mkpart {{partition_name}} {{btrfs|ext2|ext3|ext4|fat16|fat32|hfs|hfs+|linux-swap|ntfs|reiserfs|udf|xfs}} {{0%}} {{16G}}

[Interactive] Create a 16 GB partition with the specified filesystem in interactive mode (`MBR` partition table)

mkpart {{primary|logical|extended}} {{btrfs|ext2|ext3|ext4|fat16|fat32|hfs|hfs+|linux-swap|ntfs|reiserfs|udf|xfs}} {{0%}} {{16G}}

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