[Solved] Disk utility to use in scripts
[Solved] Disk utility to use in scripts
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.
[Solved] Disk utility to use in scripts
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.
parted -s
or parted --script
– never prompt the user
Worked for me. Thank you!
sfdisk is a script-oriented tool for partitioning any block device.
Also sgdisk https://man.archlinux.org/man/sgdisk.8.en
Not something I've done before, but have you tried fdisk
?
fdisk
is completely interactive, not suitable for scripting. sfdisk
is a "scriptable fdisk".
Even the manpage Telorand linked mentions it by name for non-interactive use.
Also, make sure you use the right program depending on thr partition table : sgdisk
is the right choice for GPT disks, sfdisk
is for MBR.
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-tty
flag to use parted in a script.
Why there isn't something like --no-confirmation flag?