2.3 Command Line Options

When invoked from the command line, Parted supports the following syntax:

# parted [option] device [command [argument]]

Available options and commands follow. For detailed explanations of the use of Parted commands, see Parted Session Commands. Options begin with a hyphen, commands do not:

Options:

‘-h’
‘--help’

display a help message

‘-l’
‘--list’

lists partition layout on all block devices

‘-m’
‘--machine’

display output in machine parseable format

‘-j’
‘--json’

display output in JSON format

‘-s’
‘--script’

never prompt the user

‘-f’
‘--fix’

automatically answer exceptions with "fix" in script mode, which is useful for: GPT header not including full disk size; moving the backup GPT table to the end of the disk; MAC fix missing partition map entry; etc.

‘-a alignment-type’
‘--align alignment-type’

Set alignment for newly created partitions, valid alignment types are: none, cylinder, minimal and optimal.

‘-v’
‘--version’

display the version