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.

  • Snot Flickerman
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    3 months ago

    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.

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52509644/how-do-i-get-over-parted-confirmation-request-in-a-script

    • @user_naaOP
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      13 months ago

      Why there isn’t something like --no-confirmation flag?