Parted partition drive with small partition at the end
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I would like to partition a drive from a script, so that there is a big partition filling most of the drive, then a small one at the end. So far I have come up with.
parted -s -- /dev/sda mklabel msdos
parted -s -a optimal -- /dev/sda mkpart primary 1MiB -10GiB
parted -s -a optimal -- /dev/sda mkpart primary -10GiB -1s
Unfortunately the last command doesn't work. It seems parted will accept a negative number for the end of a partition but not for the start. How do I get around this?
scripting parted
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I would like to partition a drive from a script, so that there is a big partition filling most of the drive, then a small one at the end. So far I have come up with.
parted -s -- /dev/sda mklabel msdos
parted -s -a optimal -- /dev/sda mkpart primary 1MiB -10GiB
parted -s -a optimal -- /dev/sda mkpart primary -10GiB -1s
Unfortunately the last command doesn't work. It seems parted will accept a negative number for the end of a partition but not for the start. How do I get around this?
scripting parted
edited Mar 16 at 20:33
johan
153
asked Mar 16 at 15:27
plugwashplugwash
1,950619
add a comment |
I would like to partition a drive from a script, so that there is a big partition filling most of the drive, then a small one at the end. So far I have come up with.
parted -s -- /dev/sda mklabel msdos
parted -s -a optimal -- /dev/sda mkpart primary 1MiB -10GiB
parted -s -a optimal -- /dev/sda mkpart primary -10GiB -1s
Unfortunately the last command doesn't work. It seems parted will accept a negative number for the end of a partition but not for the start. How do I get around this?
scripting parted
edited Mar 16 at 20:33
johan
153
asked Mar 16 at 15:27
plugwashplugwash
1,950619
I would like to partition a drive from a script, so that there is a big partition filling most of the drive, then a small one at the end. So far I have come up with.
parted -s -- /dev/sda mklabel msdos
parted -s -a optimal -- /dev/sda mkpart primary 1MiB -10GiB
parted -s -a optimal -- /dev/sda mkpart primary -10GiB -1s
Unfortunately the last command doesn't work. It seems parted will accept a negative number for the end of a partition but not for the start. How do I get around this?
scripting parted
scripting parted
edited Mar 16 at 20:33
johan
153
asked Mar 16 at 15:27
plugwashplugwash
1,950619
edited Mar 16 at 20:33
johan
153
asked Mar 16 at 15:27
plugwashplugwash
1,950619
edited Mar 16 at 20:33
johan
153
edited Mar 16 at 20:33
johan
153
edited Mar 16 at 20:33
johan
153
153
asked Mar 16 at 15:27
plugwashplugwash
1,950619
asked Mar 16 at 15:27
plugwashplugwash
1,950619
asked Mar 16 at 15:27
plugwashplugwash
1,950619
1,950619
add a comment |
add a comment |
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I finally figured this one out, it seems that while the documentation says that specifying the filesystem type is optional and normally it is, the parser can't handle a negative number when it's looking for a filesystem type.
If I change the script to specify filesystem types then it works.
parted -s -- /dev/sda mklabel msdos
parted -s -a optimal -- /dev/sda mkpart primary btrfs 1MiB -10GiB
parted -s -a optimal -- /dev/sda mkpart primary linux-swap -10GiB -1s
answered Mar 16 at 15:34
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I finally figured this one out, it seems that while the documentation says that specifying the filesystem type is optional and normally it is, the parser can't handle a negative number when it's looking for a filesystem type.
If I change the script to specify filesystem types then it works.
parted -s -- /dev/sda mklabel msdos
parted -s -a optimal -- /dev/sda mkpart primary btrfs 1MiB -10GiB
parted -s -a optimal -- /dev/sda mkpart primary linux-swap -10GiB -1s
answered Mar 16 at 15:34
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I finally figured this one out, it seems that while the documentation says that specifying the filesystem type is optional and normally it is, the parser can't handle a negative number when it's looking for a filesystem type.
If I change the script to specify filesystem types then it works.
parted -s -- /dev/sda mklabel msdos
parted -s -a optimal -- /dev/sda mkpart primary btrfs 1MiB -10GiB
parted -s -a optimal -- /dev/sda mkpart primary linux-swap -10GiB -1s
answered Mar 16 at 15:34
plugwashplugwash
1,950619
add a comment |
I finally figured this one out, it seems that while the documentation says that specifying the filesystem type is optional and normally it is, the parser can't handle a negative number when it's looking for a filesystem type.
If I change the script to specify filesystem types then it works.
parted -s -- /dev/sda mklabel msdos
parted -s -a optimal -- /dev/sda mkpart primary btrfs 1MiB -10GiB
parted -s -a optimal -- /dev/sda mkpart primary linux-swap -10GiB -1s
answered Mar 16 at 15:34
plugwashplugwash
1,950619
I finally figured this one out, it seems that while the documentation says that specifying the filesystem type is optional and normally it is, the parser can't handle a negative number when it's looking for a filesystem type.
If I change the script to specify filesystem types then it works.
parted -s -- /dev/sda mklabel msdos
parted -s -a optimal -- /dev/sda mkpart primary btrfs 1MiB -10GiB
parted -s -a optimal -- /dev/sda mkpart primary linux-swap -10GiB -1s
answered Mar 16 at 15:34
plugwashplugwash
1,950619
answered Mar 16 at 15:34
plugwashplugwash
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answered Mar 16 at 15:34
plugwashplugwash
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answered Mar 16 at 15:34
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