Re: Command Line Partitioning
On Feb 19, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 02/19/2011 02:18 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote:
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>> On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
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>>> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:49:41AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> If you're always using partition #1, then shouldn't the calculations always be the same, and thus pre-computable?
The start, but there are cases where I might want the partition to be larger than in other cases, and I'd still have to figure out the start for the swap partition.
On that note -- I noticed that when Squeeze created the swap partition on my original CF card drive, it made it an extended partition and on the test copy, it automatically created a swap after boot that was also an extended partition. Is that s.o.p.?
Hal
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