parted

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

• List partitions on all block devices:

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

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

sudo parted {{/dev/sdX}} 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 (--script skips user intervention prompts):

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

• Set a partition to have its boot flag turned on:

sudo parted {{/dev/sdX}} set {{1}} boot on

• Start interactive mode with the specified disk selected:

sudo parted {{/dev/sdX}}

• Display help:

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