{"id":19919,"date":"2024-03-15T19:38:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T19:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-create-a-new-partition-using-the-parted-command\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T16:51:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T16:51:01","slug":"how-to-create-a-new-partition-using-the-parted-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-create-a-new-partition-using-the-parted-command\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create a new partition using the parted command?"},"content":{"rendered":"

To create a new partition using the parted command, follow these steps:<\/p>\n

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  1. Open the terminal.<\/li>\n
  2. Use the following command to launch the parted command line interface:<\/li>\n
  3. Give permission to parted<\/li>\n
  4. Note: You need to run the parted command with administrative privileges.<\/li>\n
  5. Select the disk that you want to partition. For example, if you want to partition \/dev\/sda, you can enter the following command:<\/li>\n
  6. Choose \/dev\/sda<\/li>\n
  7. Use the command “print” to view the partition status of the disk, which will display a list of existing partitions on the disk.<\/li>\n
  8. To create a new partition table, use the mklabel command. For example, if you want to create a new GPT partition table, you can input the following command:<\/li>\n
  9. Create a GPT label.<\/li>\n
  10. Alternatively, you can choose MBR partition table by entering the following command:<\/li>\n
  11. Set the label to msdos.<\/li>\n
  12. To create a new partition, use the command mkpart. This command requires specifying the type of partition (primary, extended, or logical), the starting position, and the ending position. For example, to create a primary partition, you can input the following command:<\/li>\n
  13. Create a primary partition with the specified file system type, starting position, and ending position.<\/li>\n
  14. The can be ext4, ntfs, fat32, etc. The and can be represented using MBR or GBR, for example, 10GB.<\/li>\n
  15. To create a logical partition, you can enter the following command:<\/li>\n
  16. create a logical partition with starting at and ending at <\/li>\n
  17. Use the “print” command to view the newly created partition.<\/li>\n
  18. To exit the parted command line interface, use the quit command.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Before using the parted command to create a new partition, make sure to back up all important data on the disk to prevent any unexpected data loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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