parted: Overview
1.1 Overview of GNU Parted
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GNU Parted is a program for creating and manipulating partition tables.
This documentation is written with the assumption that the reader has
some understanding of partitioning and file systems.
GNU Parted was designed to minimize the chance of data loss. For
example, it was designed to avoid data loss during interruptions (like
power failure) and performs many safety checks. However, there could be
bugs in GNU Parted, so you should back up your important files before
running Parted.
The GNU Parted homepage is <http://www.gnu.org/software/parted>. The
library and frontend themselves can be downloaded from
<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted>. You can also find a listing of mailing
lists, notes for contributing and more useful information on the web
site.
Please send bug reports to <bug-parted@gnu.org>. When sending bug
reports, please include the version of GNU Parted. Please include the
output from these commands (for disk '/dev/hda'):
# parted /dev/hda print unit s print unit chs print
Feel free to ask for help on this list -- just check that your
question isn't answered here first. If you don't understand the
documentation, please tell us, so we can explain it better. General
philosophy is: if you need to ask for help, then something needs to be
fixed so you (and others) don't need to ask for help.
Also, we'd love to hear your ideas :-)
Info Catalog
parted: Introduction
parted: Software Required