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.TH "CPARTED" "8" "23 March 2011" "\ \&" "cparted Manual"
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.SH "NAME"
cparted \- Curses based disk partition manipulation program
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
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\fBcparted\fR [\fIOPTION\fR] \fIDEVICE_PATH\fR
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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\fBcparted\fR is a curses based disk partition manipulation program that aims to replace cfdisk by providing a friendly curses interface with the partition manipulation power of libparted\&. \fBcparted\fR is written in Python, and thus makes use of libparted through pyparted\&.
.SH "OPTIONS"
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\fB\-\-debug\fR
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Start
\fBcparted\fR
in debug mode\&. This causes
\fBcparted\fR
to display extended, metadata, and protected partitions, and sets the default unit to sectors\&. This will also prevent the hiding of small unusable regions created from aligning the partitions\&.
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.SH "BUGS"
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Warning: this software has not been widely tested and has a least a few issues\&.
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Sometimes, when adding a logical partition, two regions of free space will appear next to each other\&. This is bad\&. Do not write to disk if this happens\&. If you do, the partition table will probably be corrupted, and you will have to create a new one\&. One sure way to trigger this bug seems to be creating a logical partition on a disk without any primary partitions\&.
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If you notice additional bugs or have feature requests, create issues for them at https://github\&.com/davekong/cparted/issues\&.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
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\fBparted\fR(8)
.SH "AUTHOR"
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David Campbell <davekong@archlinux\&.us>