Re: issues

2009-12-28 Thread Jim Thomas
>>>>> "JimM" == Jim Meyering writes: JimM> Jim Thomas wrote: >>>>>>> "JimT" == Jim Thomas writes: JimT> Except that it does not :< JimT> [r...@test:~/] # parted --script /dev/sdb mklabel gpt JimT> [r...@test:~/] # par

Re: issues

2009-12-23 Thread Jim Thomas
>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Thomas writes: Jim> Of course I now see that the help command says it is Jim> mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END make a partition But it is not "PART_TYPE" but "NAME". [r...@test:~/] # parted --script /dev/

Re: issues

2009-12-23 Thread Jim Thomas
>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Thomas writes: Jim> Except that it does not :< Jim> [r...@test:~/] # parted --script /dev/sdb mklabel gpt Jim> [r...@test:~/] # parted --script -- /dev/sdb mkpart gpt 0 -1s Jim> Error: You requested a partition fro

Re: issues

2009-12-23 Thread Jim Thomas
>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Thomas writes: Jim> I'm trying to use parted to initialize a 7TB "disk" that will end up Jim> with xfs as its file system. I got it to work in interactive mode Jim> after some experimenting. But I'd like to be able to

Re: issues

2009-12-23 Thread Jim Thomas
>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Thomas writes: Jim> I'm trying to use parted to initialize a 7TB "disk" that will end up Jim> with xfs as its file system. I got it to work in interactive mode Jim> after some experimenting. But I'd like to be able t

issues

2009-12-23 Thread Jim Thomas
Aloha, I'm trying to use parted to initialize a 7TB "disk" that will end up with xfs as its file system. I got it to work in interactive mode after some experimenting. But I'd like to be able to use the command line. (parted) mkpart mkpart Partition name? []? root r