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Parted is a software package used to manipulate paritition tables. It is useful for formatting new disks, reorganinzing disks, and removing disk data<\/p>\n
First select the disk you would like to use, if you are unsure you you can use fdisk to list all of the disks available to you<\/p>\n
fdisk -l<\/p>\n
Once you have located the correct disk you would like to use we will use it to enter the command prompt. In this case, we are creating a swap disk on a KVM virtual machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n # parted \/dev\/vdb Replacing \/dev\/vdb with the disk you want to use<\/p>\n We will first need to make the label, at the prompt type mklabel<\/p>\n (parted) mklabel It will warn you before erase the disk, go ahead type Yes as long as you are certain this is the correct disk<\/p>\n Warning: The existing disk label on \/dev\/vdb will be destroyed and all data on this disk will be lost. Do you want to continue? Next you are going to format the disk, to do this type the following<\/p>\n (parted) mkpart We indicated this was going to be a primary partition, it was going to be linux-swap, that it was going to start at 0% of the disk and end at 100%. To verify what you have crated going ahead and type print to review it looks correct:<\/p>\n (parted) print Number Start End Size Type File system Flags You can now exit out of parted:<\/p>\n (parted) quit You will then want tell the operating system to make the newly created partition into a swap file:<\/p>\n mkswap \/dev\/vdb1<\/p>\n And then enable swapping by entering the following<\/p>\n swapon \/dev\/vdb1<\/p>\n You can then finally add it to \/etc\/fstab to ensure it starts on boot<\/p>\n \/dev\/vdb1 swap swap defaults<\/p>\n
\nGNU Parted 3.1
\nUsing \/dev\/vdb
\nWelcome to GNU Parted! Type ‘help’ to view a list of commands.
\n(parted)<\/p>\nLabel The Disk<\/h3>\n
\nNew disk label type? msdos<\/p>\n
\nYes\/No? Yes
\n(parted)<\/p>\nSetting the size and type of the disk<\/h3>\n
\nPartition type? primary\/extended? primary
\nFile system type? [ext2]? linux-swap
\nStart? 0%
\nEnd? 100%<\/p>\n
\nModel: Virtio Block Device (virtblk)
\nDisk \/dev\/vdb: 1074MB
\nSector size (logical\/physical): 512B\/512B
\nPartition Table: msdos
\nDisk Flags:<\/p>\n
\n1 1049kB 1074MB 1073MB primary<\/p>\n
\nInformation: You may need to update \/etc\/fstab.<\/p>\nCreating the swap file<\/h3>\n