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error scripting parted using the mkfs command
From: |
Nathan Boettcher |
Subject: |
error scripting parted using the mkfs command |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:44:16 -0700 (PDT) |
I have been trying to use parted to help automate the creation of a disk image
that I can then write to a card/disk/etc. I use sfdisk to partition the image
due to parted's inability to update/create the partition table (or at least I
can't figure out how to do it with parted)...part of which is the disk geometry
that's needed. Then I am trying to use parted to set up an ext2 filesystem on
the first partition. Here's an abbreviated example:
1) dd if=/dev/zero of=test.dd -> create an empty image that we can then
partition and fill
2) sfdisk ... test.dd -> creates 2 partitions, both set to ext2
3) parted -s test.dd mkfs 1 ext2 -> an attempt to make an ext2 filesystem on
partition 1
Problem is, parted throws the exception that it's going to destroy the data and
aborts the operation rather than continuing due to the -s flag. I have tried
every way I can think of to throw a confirmation to parted so it will continue
and create the filesystem, but it just won't do it.
Can someone tell me why it's failing and how I can get it to work? I've been
searching and hammering on this for 2 days already. I am using parted 1.8.5 as
it is the only one that will compile on the linux system I'm using. If this
issue is fixed in a later release, I can see about upgrading the dependencies.
Thanks,
-Nathan
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