Command: Ranish Partition Manager (part)
Ranish Partition manager is an enhanced partitioning tool like
FDISK with a lot of extra features. You can create up to four
primary partitions, you can format the partitions with this tool
and wipe the free space (options depend on file system), you can set
the active partition, save and restore MBR (master boot record), there
is an advanced boot manager with which you can have up to 31
bootable partitions (!!), you can check disk surface for bad sectors
without destroying the data. Etc. etc.
Syntax:
part [-q] [-d disk] [-command ...]
Options:
part - Interactive mode
part -i - Print IDE disk info
part -p - Print partition table
part -p -r - Print info recursively
part -a n - Activate n-th partition
part -v n - Verify n-th partition
part -f n ... - Format n-th partition
part -s file - Save MBR to file
part -l file - Load MBR from file
part -c file - Compare MBR with file
part -Reboot - Reboot computer
Comments:
Ranish PART has an extensive documentation that is beyond the scope of
this help. For more information see:
https://github.com/boeckmann/ranish
The most actual version can be downloaded here:
https://github.com/boeckmann/ranish/tags
The program returns exit code 0 if there was no errors and/or
compared objects had no differences (1 is returned otherwise).
Examples:
part starts the user interface
- See options above -
See also:
aefdisk
fdisk
format
label
xfdisk
Copyright © 1998 Mikhail Ranish, fork: 2023-2024 Bernd Böckmann,
help version 2023 W. Spiegl.
This file is derived from the FreeDOS Spec Command HOWTO.
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