Provide a man-page for the part command.
Signed-off-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra eballetbo@redhat.com ---
Changes in v2: - New patch (1) in the series to fix a trivial type - New patch (2) in the series to introduce the documentation of the part type command - Fix typo s/partittion/partition/ in commit message - Add gpt test for the part type command - Add the man-page for part command in doc/usage/cmd
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diff --git a/doc/usage/cmd/part.rst b/doc/usage/cmd/part.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..be931e520f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/usage/cmd/part.rst @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+: + +part command +=============== + +Synopis +------- + +:: + + part uuid <interface> <dev>:<part> [varname] + part list <interface> <dev> [flags] [varname] + part start <interface> <dev> <part> <varname> + part size <interface> <dev> <part> <varname> + part number <interface> <dev> <part> <varname> + part types + +Description +----------- + +The `part` command is used to manage disk partition related commands. + +The 'part uuid' command prints or sets an environment variable to partition UUID + + interface + interface for accessing the block device (mmc, sata, scsi, usb, ....) + dev + device number + part + partition number + varname + an optional environment variable to store the current partition UUID value into. + +The 'part list' command prints or sets an environment variable to the list of partitions + + interface + interface for accessing the block device (mmc, sata, scsi, usb, ....) + dev + device number + part + partition number + flags + -bootable + lists only bootable partitions + varname + an optional environment variable to store the list of partitions value into. + +The 'part start' sets an environment variable to the start of the partition (in blocks), +part can be either partition number or partition name. + + interface + interface for accessing the block device (mmc, sata, scsi, usb, ....) + dev + device number + part + partition number + varname + a variable to store the current start of the partition value into. + +The 'part size' sets an environment variable to the size of the partition (in blocks), +part can be either partition number or partition name. + + interface + interface for accessing the block device (mmc, sata, scsi, usb, ....) + dev + device number + part + partition number + varname + a variable to store the current size of the partition value into. + +The 'part number' sets an environment variable to the partition number using the partition name, +part must be specified as partition name. + + interface + interface for accessing the block device (mmc, sata, scsi, usb, ....) + dev + device number + part + partition number + varname + a variable to store the current partition number value into + +The 'part types' command list supported partition table types. + +Example +------- + +This example shows listing supported partition types:: + + U-Boot> part types + Supported partition tables: EFI, AMIGA, DOS, ISO, MAC + +Return value +------------ + +The return value $? is always 0 (true).