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Partition Management for the Debian Installer

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© 2003,2004,2007 Anton Zinoviev

This manual is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

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Contents

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Changes in partman since 2005
• 3 Package interrelations
  • 3.1 Basics
  • 3.2 Menu-directories
  • 3.3 Partitioning
  • 3.4 Setup /target
• 4 /lib/partman/lib/*
  • 4.1 Environment
  • 4.2 Menus
  • 4.3 Long numbers
  • 4.4 Updating partition directories
  • 4.5 Communication with parted_server
• 5 The commands of parted_server
  • 5.1 Open a new device
  • 5.2 Close a device
  • 5.3 Does the partition exist on the disk?
  • 5.4 Remember the partition table as unchanged
  • 5.5 Report whether the partition table is changed
  • 5.6 Dump the partitions
  • 5.7 Write partitioning to the disk
  • 5.8 Undo the changes
  • 5.9 Get the partitions
  • 5.10 Getting info about a partition
  • 5.11 Getting cylinder/head/sector geometry of a partition/free space
  • 5.12 Getting the supported partition table types
  • 5.13 Get the type of the disk label
  • 5.14 Create a new empty partition table
  • 5.15 Getting the meaningful flags for a partition
  • 5.16 Getting the active flags of a partition
  • 5.17 Set the flags of a partition
  • 5.18 Check if partition names are supported
  • 5.19 Set the name of a partition
  • 5.20 Get the maximum number of primary partitions
  • 5.21 Check if extended and logical partitions are supported
  • 5.22 Get the known to parted_server file systems
  • 5.23 Try to detect the file system in a partition
  • 5.24 Change the filesystem of a partition
  • 5.25 Create a new partition
  • 5.26 Delete a partition
  • 5.27 Resize a partition
  • 5.28 Get resize range
• 6 Bugs and limitations

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Partition Management for the Debian Installer