Re: Command Line Partitioning

2011-02-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
Honestly, that's WAY more of a level of involvement than what I want to get into. I've already figured out what I need to do and compared it to the size of the memory and the CPU and so on. I have a general rule: the less work (and still achieving my goal), the better. The fewer exceptions I

Re: Command Line Partitioning

2011-02-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Feb 19, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/19/2011 02:18 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: >> >> On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Rob Owens wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:49:41AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: fdisk: Doesn't seem to have a batch/script mode and I'd have to calcul

Re: Command Line Partitioning

2011-02-19 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:18:49 -0500 (EST), Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Rob Owens wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:49:41AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: >>> >>> fdisk: Doesn't seem to have a batch/script mode and I'd have >>> to calculate sizes in megabytes from cylinder info

Re: Command Line Partitioning

2011-02-19 Thread Dom
On 19/02/11 20:18, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:49:41AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: fdisk: Doesn't seem to have a batch/script mode and I'd have to calculate sizes in megabytes from cylinder info fdisk does allow you to specify

Re: Command Line Partitioning

2011-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/19/2011 02:18 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:49:41AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: fdisk: Doesn't seem to have a batch/script mode and I'd have to calculate sizes in megabytes from cylinder info fdisk does allow you to sp

Re: Command Line Partitioning

2011-02-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:49:41AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: >> >> fdisk: Doesn't seem to have a batch/script mode and I'd have to calculate >> sizes in megabytes from cylinder info >> > fdisk does allow you to specify the start cylinder, then s

Re: Command Line Partitioning

2011-02-19 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:49:41 -0500 (EST), Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I have everything else worked out so it can be done in a batch mode > or in a program, but I'm having trouble with partitioning. > > I've been working with cfdisk, fdisk, and parted: > > parted: Always leaves only 512 bytes at the

Re: Command Line Partitioning

2011-02-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:49:41AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > fdisk: Doesn't seem to have a batch/script mode and I'd have to calculate > sizes in megabytes from cylinder info > fdisk does allow you to specify the start cylinder, then something like +1000M for the end of the partition. "M" m