On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:44:16PM -0700, Nathan Boettcher wrote: > 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.
I'm guessing you should update to 1.8.8, current release. That has a bunch of fixes. You should update and create the partitions with parted. _only_ the partitions. For filesystem related stuff you should use utilities like mkfs.ext2 and relatives. hope it helps. > > Thanks, > > -Nathan > > > _______________________________________________ > bug-parted mailing list > bug-parted@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted -- Joel Andres Granados Brno, Czech Republic, Red Hat. _______________________________________________ bug-parted mailing list bug-parted@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
