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 -sorparted --script– never prompt the userWorked 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?fdiskis completely interactive, not suitable for scripting.sfdiskis 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 :
sgdiskis the right choice for GPT disks,sfdiskis for MBR.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:Since version 2.26 sfdisk supports MBR (DOS), GPT, SUN and SGI disk labels
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?
