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.

  • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    fdisk is completely interactive, not suitable for scripting. sfdisk is a “scriptable fdisk”.

      • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        There are few fdisk options that work non-interactively, like -l (list partitions). It is impossible to create or delete partitions this way.

        From the sfdisk man page:

        Since version 2.26 sfdisk supports MBR (DOS), GPT, SUN and SGI disk labels