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#### 2.4.5 mkpart

Command: mkpart [part-type fs-type name] start end

  Creates a new partition, without creating a new file system on that partition. This is useful for creating partitions for file systems (or LVM, etc.) that Parted doesn’t support. You may specify a file system type, to set the appropriate partition code in the partition table for the new partition. fs-type is required for data partitions (i.e., non-extended partitions). start and end are the offset from the beginning of the disk, that is, the “distance” from the start of the disk.

  part-type is one of ‘`primary`’, ‘`extended`’ or ‘`logical`’, and may be specified only with ‘`msdos`’ or ‘`dvh`’ partition tables. A name must be specified for a ‘`gpt`’ partition table. Neither part-type nor name may be used with a ‘`sun`’ partition table.

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

  - ext2
  - fat16, fat32
  - hfs, hfs+, hfsx
  - linux-swap
  - NTFS
  - reiserfs
  - ufs

  Example:

      (parted) mkpart logical 0.0 692.1

  Create a logical partition that will contain an ext2 file system. The partition will start at the beginning of the disk, and end 692.1 megabytes into the disk.