On 08/07/2014 08:45 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I am working now more on handcrafting my SD cards for arm testing. > Gparted did not do a good job, allowing me to make parititions not on > 'cylinder boundaries'. And the labels it created were not recognized > when I mounted the drive. I had to use the disk utility to fix the > labels. Anyway, to script it and to put this up on some wikis, I really > need to do this by command line. > > So I have looked at both fdisk and parted. Neither are for 'simple' > command lines. Fdisk takes me back to my DOS days (wonder where MS got > it from?). > > So first I want a command that will delete all partitions on /dev/sdb > > then create a partition as ext3, then one as linux-swap, and finally > ext4. Of course, I understand how many MB I want each, but I am suppose > to (or so from the warnings that 'fdisk -l' provided) maintain boundaries. > > thanks for any pointers to the best tool(s) for this. So far my search > foo has only gone to old fdisk pages. > Hi Robert, have a look at /sbin/cfdisk It is part of util-linux. Kind regards Joachim Backes -- Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) Kernel-3.15.8-200.fc20.x86_64 Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
