Check Parted Version

parted -v, --version

parted --version
parted (GNU parted) 3.3
Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

List Linux Disk Partitions

Let parted to run.

Use this command to see the disk partitions:

(parted) print

(parted) is the prompt of parted.

print short as p.

Model: VMware, VMware Virtual S (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 53.7GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number  Start  End  Size  File system  Name  Flags

List or Switch to Different Disk

If you have more than one disk, you can switch between disks.

Using select:

(parted) select /dev/sdX

Create Partition in Linux

We choose GPT partition table for our system.

Make partition

Running parted.

• make label for disk

  mklabel gpt

• make root partition

  (parted) mkpart
  Partition name? []? root
  File system type? [ext2]? ext4
  Start? 1
  End? 20480

• make swap partition

  (parted) mkpart
  partition name? []? swap
  File system type? [ext2]? linux-swap
  Start? 20481
  End? 28673

parted -l
Model: VMware, VMware Virtual S (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 53.7GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number  Start   End     Size    File system     Name  Flags
 1      1049kB  20.5GB  20.5GB  ext4            root
 2      20.5GB  28.7GB  8193MB  linux-swap(v1)  swap  swap

Make File System

• make file system for root partition as ext4 format

  mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1

• make file system for swap partition as linux-swap format

  mkswap /dev/sda2

Mount File System

• Mount root partition on /mnt directory:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

• Active swap partition

swapon /dev/sda2