[conspire] parted question - how do I tell parted to partion /dev/sdb

[Tony Godshall]

Assuming your device is /dev/sdx and has no partitions you can do this, I think

# parted /dev/sdx mkpartfs primary ext3

Probably someone else will have a better answer; I habitually use
cfdisk except when I need to do something special like resize a
partition...

I also habitually make partitions first and then make filesystems
after, but it's cool parted can do both...

Best Regards.



On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 20:04, Darlene Wallach
<freepalestin at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> I don't see how to tell parted to partition the Seagate FreeAgent Go 1T
>
> parted help lists the following:
>  mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END     make a partition
>  mkpartfs PART-TYPE FS-TYPE START END     make a partition with a file
> system
>
> parted help mkpartfs lists:
>
> (parted) help mkpartfs
>   mkpartfs PART-TYPE FS-TYPE START END     make a partition with a file
> system
>
>     PART-TYPE is one of: primary, logical, extended
>         START and END are disk locations, such as 4GB or 10%.  Negative
> values
>         count from the end of the disk.  For example, -1s specifies exactly
> the
>         last sector.
>
> parted help mkpart lists:
>
>   mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END     make a partition
>
>     PART-TYPE is one of: primary, logical, extended
>         FS-TYPE is one of: ext3, ext2, fat32, fat16, hfsx, hfs+, hfs, jfs,
>         linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, hp-ufs, sun-ufs, xfs, apfs2, apfs1,
> asfs,
>         amufs5, amufs4, amufs3, amufs2, amufs1, amufs0, amufs, affs7, affs6,
>         affs5, affs4, affs3, affs2, affs1, affs0
>         START and END are disk locations, such as 4GB or 10%.  Negative
> values
>         count from the end of the disk.  For example, -1s specifies exactly
> the
>         last sector.
>
>         'mkpart' makes a partition without creating a new file system on the
>         partition.  FS-TYPE may be specified to set an appropriate partition
>         ID.
>
>
> I'm assuming I want mkpartfs. But I don't see how I can specify which drive.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thank you
>
> Darlene Wallach
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