systemd-repart is a declarative tool for creating, growing and populating disk partitions. It forms part of the systemd project.
Unlike conventional interactive partition editors, systemd-repart works from partition definition files. This makes it particularly useful when building operating-system images or automatically configuring storage during deployment.
It can operate on physical block devices as well as disk-image files and includes facilities for creating complete disk images.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Creates and grows partitions according to declarative repart.d configuration files.
- Can initialise new GPT partition tables and add missing partitions to existing layouts.
- Operates on physical block devices and disk-image files.
- Supports automatic expansion of root and other partitions to consume available disk space.
- Can format newly created partitions and populate them with files or filesystem images.
- Supports encrypted partitions, including LUKS2 and integration with TPM2-backed keys.
- Can generate Verity-protected partitions and signed disk-image layouts.
- Builds Discoverable Disk Images for system extensions, configuration extensions and portable services.
- Dry-run operation shows proposed partitioning changes before writing them.
- Supports reproducible layouts, configurable alignment and offline image construction.
Website: github.com/systemd/systemd
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Developer: systemd developers
License: GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
systemd-repart is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Partitioning Tools | |
|---|---|
| GParted | Popular partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions |
| KDE Partition Manager | Disk partitioning application for the KDE Platform |
| GNOME Disks | The disk utility in GNOME |
| Parted | GParted and KDE Partition Manager use the Parted libraries |
| GPT fdisk | Set of text-mode partitioning tools |
| disktui | TUI for disk management and partitioning |
| blivet-gui | Graphical tool for storage configuration |
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