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Disk utility to use in scripts (lemmy.world)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

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