Command line for creating partitions

[Joachim Backes]

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

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