On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 11:15, Trevor Smith wrote: > On January 7, 2004 11:48 am, Rodrigo Malara wrote: > > It was a long time ago and I don't remember the details, > > but the info and man pages are good resources of information... > > It's hard to find man pages when you don't know the name of the program. :-) > But someone else already mentioned it (parted). Thanks! apropos is your friend. $ apropos partition GNU Parted [parted] (8) - a partition manipulation program MPI_Cart_sub (3) - Partitions a communicator into subgroups which form lower-dimensional cartesian subgrids fdisk (8) - Partition table manipulator for Linux iostat (1) - Report Central Processing Unit (CPU) statistics and input/output statistics for devices and partitions jfs_mkfs (8) - create a JFS formatted partition jfs_mkfs [mkfs] (8) - create a JFS formatted partition lvmdiskscan (8) - scan for all disks / multiple devices / partitions available mpartition (1) - partition an MSDOS hard disk partprobe (8) - inform the OS of partition table changes pvcreate (8) - initialize a disk or partition for use by LVM sfdisk (8) - Partition table manipulator for Linux -- Kevin Street street@xxxxxxxxxx
