parted

### help Usage: parted [OPTION]... [DEVICE [COMMAND [PARAMETERS]...]...] Apply COMMANDs with PARAMETERS to DEVICE.  If no COMMAND(s) are given, run in interactive mode. OPTIONs:  -h, --help                    displays this help message  -i, --interactive             where necessary, prompts for user intervention  -l, --list                    lists partition tables of all detected devices  -s, --script                  never prompts for user intervention  -v, --version                 displays the version COMMANDs:  check NUMBER                             do a simple check on the file system  cp [FROM-DEVICE] FROM-NUMBER TO-NUMBER   copy file system to another partition  help [COMMAND]                           prints general help, or help on COMMAND  mklabel,mktable LABEL-TYPE               create a new disklabel (partition table)  mkfs NUMBER FS-TYPE                      make a FS-TYPE file system on partititon NUMBER  mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END     make a partition  mkpartfs PART-TYPE FS-TYPE START END     make a partition with a file system  move NUMBER START END                    move partition NUMBER  name NUMBER NAME                         name partition NUMBER as NAME  print [free|NUMBER|all]                  display the partition table, a partition, or all devices  quit                                     exit program  rescue START END                         rescue a lost partition near START and END  resize NUMBER START END                  resize partition NUMBER and its file system  rm NUMBER                                delete partition NUMBER  select DEVICE                            choose the device to edit  set NUMBER FLAG STATE                    change the FLAG on partition NUMBER  toggle [NUMBER [FLAG]]                   toggle the state of FLAG on partition NUMBER  unit UNIT                                set the default unit to UNIT  version                                  displays the current version of GNU Parted and copyright information ### info page (the useful example) ... 2.2 Using GNU Parted ==================== Parted has two modes: command line and interactive.  Parted should always be started with:     # parted DEVICE where DEVICE is the hard disk device to edit.  (If you're lazy and omit the DEVICE argument, Parted will attempt to guess which device you want.)  In command line mode, this is followed by one or more commands.  For example:     # parted /dev/sda resize 1 52Mb 104Mb mkfs 2 fat16 Options (like `--help') can only be specified on the command line.  In interactive mode, commands are entered one at a time at a prompt, and modify the disk immediately.  For example:     (parted) resize 1 52.0005Mb 104.5Mb     (parted) mkfs 2 fat16

It took me the better part of an hour to figure out that the 'partition' name is 1 and not /dev/sdb1. "illegal name' What illegal name, the drive, the partition? Give me an error that tels me what is wrong. Neither the manual page nor the internet told me what I needed. It took the info page to find an example that made any sense.

I've used gparted under Knoppix a couple times. It is a snap. That was another blog entry. The new Knoppix doesn't have all the utilities that the old one had. It appears they are trying to make any computer you sit down to turn in to a web based workstation. That is all well and good. I need a capable rescue CD that has all the bits I need to fix drives, partitions, network connections and trouble shoot all kinds of issues. The aging old version of Knoppix has failed me several times now. It just hasn't kept up with drivers.

I'm rescue-CD-less. I need a new safety tether.