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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 07:27:18 +0900

Re: A command line partition editor?

At 09:07 PM 9/22/99 +0930, Allan <choska@bold.net.au> wrote:
>      -----Original Message-----
><sharpe@ns.aus.com>
>To: LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au<LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au>
>Date:  Wednesday, 22 September 1999 8:47
>Subject: A command line partition  editor?
>
> >Hi,
>>
>>I, and others, have need of a command line  partition edition.
>>
>>It need only be as simple  as:
>>
>>   -e 124 -t 83 [-b]  /dev/hda

Alan, could you like, lose the HTML :-)


>>Does anyone know of such a tool, or do I need to create  one?
>   There's something wrong with fdisk?   Alternatively ... cfdisk (Redhat
>5.2)     Allan 

Clearly, I was a little terse in my request.

What I want is a tool that can be put into scripts to automatically
partition a disk according to a prescription.

Ie, create a 1GB partition of type 6, a 120M partition of type 82, and the
rest in a partition of type 83.

Actually, what I really want is libpart, a partitioning library, with the
following entry points:

   part_delete
   part_create
   part_change
   part_get_info
   part_copy

and a few others.



Regards
-------
Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com, Master Linux Administrator :-),
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author: First Australian 5-day, intensive, hands-on Linux SysAdmin course

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