Script for automated partitioning in the next official release?

DSpider · 2012-07-23 19:17:56

Disclaimer: don't run it with root privileges unless /dev/sda is a blank disk. You have been warned.

# dhcpcd
# curl sprunge.us/WATU > autopart      #Uppercase required.
# nano autopart
# sh autopart

http://sprunge.us/WATU

Tested in VirtualBox.

I remember that the AIF used 100 MB for /boot and 7.4 GB for "/". Close enough, right?

Users can also edit the script and make their own version. What do you think?

Last edited by DSpider (2012-08-07 08:22:26)

blackout23 · 2012-07-23 19:36:11

I wonder what is the difference between parted and gdisk? I always used gdisk for GPT. Tried "parted help" and was a bit overwhelmed by the output. With gdisk it's just "o" to start fresh. Use"n" as many times as you want and finally "w".

Awebb · 2012-07-23 19:48:49

I'd say the difference is, that we know that gdisk works for a GPT setup - because it was created to do exactly that, while all we know about parted is, that it began supporting GPT at some point.

DSpider · 2012-07-23 22:29:43

Hmmm... Maybe I should look into gdisk too (the gptfdisk package). I just hope I can set it in "MiB", and not get something like "98.63 MB" or "7.91 GB". Parted makes them nice and even and I like that. Parted is also the backend for GParted, which a lot more people use than command-line tools.

cfr · 2012-07-24 00:40:24

I've used both parted (CLI and gparted) and gdisk on GPT and both seem to work fine. I find gdisk a bit easier although I learnt it after parted and it seems to have some capabilities parted doesn't. But for most purposes, both seem to do the job. (But if I had to say which I'd trust more, it'd be gdisk. But I can't really say why.)

dontbugme · 2012-07-24 11:40:31

Nice script, i'll use it next time.
Thx

scjet · 2012-07-27 17:17:12

,,,even if they just put something similar to the above mentioned scripts,... whatever with a "tiny" explanantion" in motd would help absolute "n00bs" not have to memorize 12 lines of important upon inital install/setuip schtuff. -in fact, I double-dare the devs to atleast incorporate something nice like that.
Oh wait, maybe maybe Arch can't, 'cause obviously Arch doesn't even know where they're going...?
huh ?
we're talkin 1993 backretards compatibility here -at the least.
Oh wait again, you don't really want N00BS here do ya, arch dev's ???
call me once, call me twice.
and no, this ain't off-top.

Inxsible · 2012-07-27 17:21:18

scjet, what on earth are you blabbering about ??

drobole · 2012-08-06 22:09:52

Thank, thats useful.

Btw. I'm not getting correct results unless I use 1000 instead of 1024

DSpider · 2012-08-07 08:40:58

Here's what it looks like multiplied by 1024: http://i.imgur.com/fttkB.png

And here's what it looks like by 1000: http://i.imgur.com/oaCxF.png

I don't know about you, but I very much dislike 7.81 GB, 1.95 GB, etc. If you're going to test it in VirtualBox, please create a virtual drive of at least 15.1 GB (100+8+2+5), or, you know, use smaller numbers. Also, using "Dynamic Size" only takes up about 60 MB or so of actual space, so you may as well create a 20 GB+ virtual drive.

drobole · 2012-08-07 21:39:37

DSpider wrote:

Here's what it looks like multiplied by 1024: http://i.imgur.com/fttkB.png
And here's what it looks like by 1000: http://i.imgur.com/oaCxF.png

I don't know about you, but I very much dislike 7.81 GB, 1.95 GB, etc. If you're going to test it in VirtualBox, please create a virtual drive of at least 15.1 GB (100+8+2+5), or, you know, use smaller numbers. Also, using "Dynamic Size" only takes up about 60 MB or so of actual space, so you may as well create a 20 GB+ virtual drive.

I am doing the max calculation directly on my desktop computer and using 1000 is the only result that corresponds to the label on the disk, so to speak. I'm not sure though, have to look closer at this when I get the time.

iaw4 · 2015-03-18 22:23:48

I think the script is no longer there. my browser does not get me to a script. anyone care to post?

--- no longer useful. the sgdisk discussion in http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/sgdisk-walkthrough.html covers it.

Last edited by iaw4 (2015-03-18 22:28:11)

fsckd · 2015-03-18 23:45:24

iaw4, this thread is almost three years old. Please see Forum Etquette: Old Threads / Necro-Bumping. Closing.

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Script for automated partitioning in the next official release?

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