I have been trying to use parted to help automate the creation of a disk image that I can then write to a card/disk/etc. I use sfdisk to partition the image due to parted's inability to update/create the partition table (or at least I can't figure out how to do it with parted)...part of which is the disk geometry that's needed. Then I am trying to use parted to set up an ext2 filesystem on the first partition. Here's an abbreviated example:
1) dd if=/dev/zero of=test.dd -> create an empty image that we can then partition and fill 2) sfdisk ... test.dd -> creates 2 partitions, both set to ext2 3) parted -s test.dd mkfs 1 ext2 -> an attempt to make an ext2 filesystem on partition 1 Problem is, parted throws the exception that it's going to destroy the data and aborts the operation rather than continuing due to the -s flag. I have tried every way I can think of to throw a confirmation to parted so it will continue and create the filesystem, but it just won't do it. Can someone tell me why it's failing and how I can get it to work? I've been searching and hammering on this for 2 days already. I am using parted 1.8.5 as it is the only one that will compile on the linux system I'm using. If this issue is fixed in a later release, I can see about upgrading the dependencies. Thanks, -Nathan _______________________________________________ bug-parted mailing list bug-parted@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
