Info Catalog parted: help parted: Command explanations parted: mkpart

parted: mklabel

 
 2.4.4 mklabel
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  -- Command: mklabel LABEL-TYPE
 
      Creates a new disk label, of type LABEL-TYPE.  The new disk label
      will have no partitions.  This command (normally) won't technically
      destroy your data, but it will make it basically unusable, and you
      will need to use the rescue command (Related information)
      to recover any partitions.  Parted works on all partition tables.
      (1)
 
      LABEL-TYPE must be one of these supported disk labels:
         * bsd
         * loop (raw disk access)
         * gpt
         * mac
         * msdos
         * pc98
         * sun
 
      Example:
 
           (parted) mklabel msdos
 
      Create an MS-DOS disk label.  This is still the most common disk
      label for PCs.
 
    ---------- Footnotes ----------
 
    (1) Everyone seems to have a different word for "disk label" -- these
 are all the same thing: partition table, partition map.
 

Info Catalog parted: help parted: Command explanations parted: mkpart