On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Mark Watts wrote: > Talking of partitioning several disks the same, is there an easy way to > automate this? # imagine the sequence of the characters you type to fdisk echo n echo p echo 1 echo 1 echo +256M ..... and run that script for each new unpartitioned/virgin /dev/hda disk .. fdisk.automated.sh | fdisk /dev/hda sample partition script: http://linux-consulting.com/Boot/Linux-1U/clone.suse-8.2.fdisk.sh1 sample cloning script: ... tar ... onto target disk http://linux-consulting.com/Boot/Linux-1U/clone.suse-8.2.sh works good when you're doing 10's, 100's of identical disks ... or same partition scheme ... c ya alvin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html