RE: a scripted fdisk ???

["Greer, Joe" <JGreer csicorp-us com>]

NAME. cfdisk - Curses based disk partition table manipulator for Linux.
SYNOPSIS. cfdisk 


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Michal Jaegermann 
> Sent:	Saturday, January 30, 1999 4:49 PM
> To:	axp-list@redhat.com
> Subject:	Re: a scripted fdisk ???
> 
> > 
> > One task I have not figured out is how to automatically create the
> initial
> > disk label.  I know how to manually do this with fdisk, but I don't want
> to
> > do this several hundred times.
> 
> You can find on net archives 'sfdisk'.  This one can be driven
> from a file with commands and data.  It is actually more flexible and
> capable than fdisk but its interface is a bit cryptic. :-)
> 
> I have no idea if 'sfdisk' is still maintained, if its code if 64 bit
> clean and if it knows now anything about disk labels.  Last time I used
> it it was definitely writing only partition tables.  If these things
> are missing it likely should not be very hard to update its code
> by "borrowing" from the current fdisk.
> 
> > Does anyone know of a tool that can write the disklabel without manual
> > intervention ???
> 
> If you are really talking about disklabel then did you check 'minlabel'?
> Its counterpart from DU definitely can do what you ask.
> 
>    Michal
> 
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