— Command: mkpartfs part-type fs-type start end

Creates a new partition of type part-type with a new file system of type fs-type on it. The new partition will start start megabytes, and end end megabytes from the beginning of the disk. Do not use this command to recover a deleted partition (use mkpart instead). Using this command is discouraged. Instead use mkpart to create an empty partition, and then use external tools like mke2fs (8) to create the filesystem.

part-type is one of: primary, extended, logical. Extended and logical are only used for msdos and dvh disk labels.

fs-type must be one of these supported file systems:

• ext2
• fat16, fat32
• linux-swap
• reiserfs (if libreiserfs is installed)

Example:

          (parted) mkpartfs logical ext2 440 670

Make a logical partition and write an ext2 file system, starting 440 megabytes and ending 670 megabytes from the beginning of the disk.