Re: Command Line Partitioning

[Hal Vaughan <hal@halblog.com>]

On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Rob Owens wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:49:41AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
>> 
>> fdisk: Doesn't seem to have a batch/script mode and I'd have to calculate sizes in megabytes from cylinder info
>> 
> fdisk does allow you to specify the start cylinder, then something like
> +1000M for the end of the partition.  "M" meaning megabytes.  It may
> also accept "G" for gigabytes these days, but I'm not sure -- you'd have
> to try it yourself.

I know I can specify the offset, but there's still the issue of having to calculate numbers to get that 1st cylinder -- and I can't use it from a script.  It's interactive.

Thanks, though.



Hal