In fact, this issue and the "command parameters ignored when parted sees need to fix GPT" I also reported work together in a surprising way: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2016-11/msg00003.html> If the GPT needs to be extended, then the following command will just fix it, as arguments on the commandline appear to be emulating user input in some way :
parted /dev/whatever print fix However, somewhat expectedly, issuing this command when there is nothing to fix will result in an error message with full usage text etc. Side note: testing a grep pattern to just run the fix command when needed, I noticed that surprisingly, the output, which is on a single line, gets split to fit in 80 colums when fed into a pipe. Not sure it is really useful, but confusing for sure... Thus ending with this hack to get the GPT back on its feet: if parted $DISK print 2>&1 | grep -q 'Not all of the space available .* appears to be used'; then parted $DISK print fix fi Hope it will help someone out there :) <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2016-11/msg00003.html> 2016-11-23 15:45 GMT+01:00 Yann Dirson <yann.dir...@blade-group.com>: > If we build a GPT image for flashing on arbitrary disks, chances are there > is space left after > that second partition-table, placed at end of image. > > When launching parted interactively, we get asked "Not all of the space > available to ... appears to be used" and asked "Fix/Ignore?". > > The code does not look like the job done on "fix" is available from any > other mean, whether lib or parted command. And the exception system does > not look like it will work with no tty attached, so > just using "echo fix | parted /dev/whatever print" will just not > workaround this. > > Did I miss something ? > > What would be the preferred approach ? What about adding a flag to > auto-fix this ? > > Best regards, > -- > Yann Dirson <y...@blade-group.com> > Blade -- 90 avenue des Ternes, 75017 Paris > > -- Yann Dirson <y...@blade-group.com> Blade -- 90 avenue des Ternes, 75017 Paris