Re: Please check my sudo bash script
On Sun, 31 Aug 2025 09:55:04 -0500
Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> wrote:
> SDX=sda
> sudo parted /dev/${SDX} mklabel gpt
> sudo parted -a opt /dev/${SDX} mkpart primary ext4=0% 100%
> sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/${SDX}
Two style notes:
* I would put quotes around any variable, in this case $(SDX}.
* I would use lower case, sdx. System variable are upper case so as to
reserve lower case for user variables such as this one.
More important, you want to specify a partition number in that last
line:
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/"${SDX}${y}"
where $y is the partition you made in the previous line. It will
probably be 1, but I'd see if I could query parted for it.
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