parted: mklabel
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1 2.4.4 mklabel
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1 -- Command: mklabel LABEL-TYPE
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1 Creates a new disk label, of type LABEL-TYPE. The new disk label
1 will have no partitions. This command (normally) won't technically
1 destroy your data, but it will make it basically unusable, and you
1 will need to use the rescue command (⇒Related information)
1 to recover any partitions. Parted works on all partition tables.
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1 LABEL-TYPE must be one of these supported disk labels:
1 * bsd
1 * loop (raw disk access)
1 * gpt
1 * mac
1 * msdos
1 * pc98
1 * sun
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1 Example:
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1 (parted) mklabel msdos
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1 Create an MS-DOS disk label. This is still the most common disk
1 label for PCs.
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1 ---------- Footnotes ----------
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1 (1) Everyone seems to have a different word for "disk label" -- these
1 are all the same thing: partition table, partition map.
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