Is there any good alternative to parted, that I can use in scripts? Parted main problem is that it requires user confirmation one each action.
Is there any good alternative to parted, that I can use in scripts? Parted main problem is that it requires user confirmation one each action.
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cerement@slrpnk.net · 21 pts · 2y
parted -sorparted --script– never prompt the useruser_naa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Worked for me. Thank you!
TunaCowboy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
sfdisk
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Also sgdisk https://man.archlinux.org/man/sgdisk.8.en
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 2y
Depends on what you're doing. There's workarounds for parted that allow you to do things like grow the size of a partition, but by default, you cannot shrink a partition via command line because the design philosophy of parted is that it should by default try to not delete any data. So growing via command line seems fine, but otherwise not so much.
Here on stackoverflow, there's some directions on how to use the
---pretend-input-ttyflag to use parted in a script.https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52509644/how-do-i-get-over-parted-confirmation-request-in-a-script
user_naa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Why there isn't something like --no-confirmation flag?
Telorand@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 2y
Not something I've done before, but have you tried
fdisk?https://linux.die.net/man/8/fdisk
bizdelnick@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
fdiskis completely interactive, not suitable for scripting.sfdiskis a "scriptable fdisk".BaumGeist@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
bizdelnick@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
There are few
fdiskoptions that work non-interactively, like-l(list partitions). It is impossible to create or delete partitions this way.From the
sfdiskman page: