[NCLUG] Fwd: Howto partition a drive from a script???

[Gabriel L. Somlo]

CJ,

I'm not familiar with sfdisk, but you can place all the keystrokes you
would normally type into fdisk in a file, and then

	cat fdisk.config | fdisk /dev/whatever_disk_device

The file would look something like this:

----------------------begin fdisk.config--------------------
o
n
p
1
1
130
n
p
2
131
1000
n
p
3
1001

t
1
82
p
w
------------------------end fdisk.config--------------------

The above is exactly what you would have to type into fdisk to obtain
the following:

     Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1       130   1044193+  82  Linux swap
/dev/sda2             131      1000   6988275   83  Linux
/dev/sda3            1001      4461  27800482+  83  Linux

I've used this successfully on lots of machines before.


Hope this helps,

Gabriel




On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 04:21:47PM -0700, Christopher C.J. Keist wrote:
> Thanks.
> Finally figured out sfdisk.  But there is a small oddity.  The following 
> is the output from a optical disk I partitioned with fdisk: