Name
partnew
Synopsis
partnew part type from toMake 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:
Type | Number |
|---|---|
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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