>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Thomas <tho...@cfht.hawaii.edu> writes:
Jim> I'm trying to use parted to initialize a 7TB "disk" that will end up Jim> with xfs as its file system. I got it to work in interactive mode Jim> after some experimenting. But I'd like to be able to use the command Jim> line. Aloha, Of course I now see that the help command says it is mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END make a partition and [r...@test:~/] # /h/thomas/src/parted/parted-1.9.0/parted/parted --script -- /dev/sdb mkpart gpt 0.0 -1s Error: You requested a partition from 0.00B to 7000GB. The closest location we can manage is 17.4kB to 7000GB. [r...@test:~/] # works. That does not match the external documentation very well :< Mahalo, Jim _______________________________________________ bug-parted mailing list bug-parted@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted