Name
partnew
Synopsis
partnew
part type from to
Make a new primary partition, part, specified in GRUB syntax. type is the partition type, specified as a number in the range 0-0xff. from and to are the starting and ending sectors, specified as absolute numbers. Some of the common partition types are:
None |
0 |
FAT 16, lt 32M |
4 |
FAT 16, gt 32M |
6 |
FAT 32 |
0xb |
FAT 32, with LBA |
0xc |
WIN 95, extended |
0xf |
EXT2FS |
0x83 |
Linux extended |
0x85 |
Linux RAID |
0xfd |
FreeBSD |
0xa5 |
OpenBSD |
0xa6 |
NetBSD |
0xfd |
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