the GNU Parted Manual

GNU Parted, version 1.6.1, 13 May 2002

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Overview of GNU Parted
  • 1.2 Software Required for the use of Parted
  • 1.3 Platforms on which GNU Parted runs
  • 1.4 Terms of distribution for GNU Parted
  • 1.5 Building GNU Parted
  • 1.6 Using a Parted Boot Disk
• 2. Using Parted
  • 2.1 Partitioning Concepts
  • 2.2 Using GNU Parted
  • 2.3 Command Line Options
  • 2.4 Parted Session Commands
    • 2.4.1 check
    • 2.4.2 cp
    • 2.4.3 help
    • 2.4.4 mklabel
    • 2.4.5 mkfs
    • 2.4.6 mkpart
    • 2.4.7 mkpartfs
    • 2.4.8 move
    • 2.4.9 name
    • 2.4.10 print
    • 2.4.11 quit
    • 2.4.12 rescue
    • 2.4.13 resize
    • 2.4.14 rm
    • 2.4.15 select
    • 2.4.16 set
  • 2.5 Example Parted Sessions
    • 2.5.1 Example: Growing a partition into unused space
    • 2.5.2 Example: Resizing an ext2 partition on a crowded disk.
• 3. BIOSes and Firmware
  • 3.1 The PC BIOS
    • 3.1.1 Using Parted with CHS mode BIOS
    • 3.1.2 Converting from CHS to LBA mode BIOS
    • 3.1.3 Using Parted with LBA mode BIOS
  • 3.2 OpenFirmware of the Apple Macintosh
    • 3.2.1 Old World Macintosh OpenFirmware
    • 3.2.2 New World Macintosh OpenFirmware
  • 3.3 The PC98 BIOS
  • 3.4 SGI / MIPS Firmware
• 4. Boot Loaders
  • 4.1 LILO: a bootloader for the Linux kernel
  • 4.2 GRUB: The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
  • 4.3 Legacy Microsoft Operating System Bootloaders
  • 4.4 The Microsoft Windows NT Bootloader
  • 4.5 The Microsoft Windows 2000 Bootloader
  • 4.6 Quik: a bootloader for Macintosh PowerPC's
  • 4.7 Yaboot: a boot loader for Macintosh PowerPC's
• 5. Operating Systems
  • 5.1 Disk labels used by GNU/Linux and FreeBSD
  • 5.2 Disk labels supported by Microsoft systems and OS/2
  • 5.3 Macintosh Operating System Disk Label Support
• 6. File Systems supported by Parted
  • 6.1 File Systems Supported by GNU Parted
  • 6.2 GNU Parted and the Second Extended Filesystem
  • 6.3 Legacy Microsoft File System Support
    • 6.3.1 MS DriveSpace partitions
      • 6.3.1.1 Growing a DriveSpace partition
      • 6.3.1.2 Shrinking a DriveSpace partition
      • 6.3.1.3 Copying a DriveSpace partition
  • 6.4 Reiserfs Journalling File System
• 7. LVM and RAID
  • 7.1 Logical Volume Manager and Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks
  • 7.2 Creating RAID or LVM partitions
  • 7.3 Manipulating a File System on a RAID or LVM volume
    • 7.3.1 Creating a File System on an LVM or RAID Virtual Device
    • 7.3.2 Resizing a File System on an LVM or RAID Virtual Device
    • 7.3.3 Copying a File System from an LVM or RAID Virtual Device to a Partition
    • 7.3.4 Copying a File System to an LVM or RAID Virtual Device
• 8. Disk Imaging
• 9. Related Software and Info
• A. Copying This Manual
  • A.1 GNU Free Documentation License
    • A.1.1 ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
• B. This manual's history
• Index

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