On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 06:14:35PM +0000, Sachiel2008 via Bug reports for the GNU Parted disk partition editor wrote: > Seems like I accidentally deleted the last sentence. When I try the second > chunk of commands, I get a invalid option error. > > Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Thursday, July 23, 2020 6:13 PM, Sachiel2008 <sachiel2...@protonmail.com> > wrote: > > > Dear GNU > > > > I found the following command op the internet: > > > >> root@localhost # parted -a optimal /dev/sda > >> (parted) unit mib > >> (parted) mkpart primary 515 -1 > > > > However, when I try to turn it into a part of a script like this: > > > >> root@localhost # parted --script /dev/sda mkpart primary 515 -1
You need to pass -- so that the argument parser won't try to turn -1 into an option: parted --script -- /dev/sda mkpart primary 515 -1 Brian -- Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT) - weldr.io - lorax - parted - pykickstart
