On Feb 19, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/19/2011 02:18 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: >> >> On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Rob Owens wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:49:41AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: >>>> >>>> fdisk: Doesn't seem to have a batch/script mode and I'd have to calculate >>>> sizes in megabytes from cylinder info >>>> >>> fdisk does allow you to specify the start cylinder, then something like >>> +1000M for the end of the partition. "M" meaning megabytes. It may >>> also accept "G" for gigabytes these days, but I'm not sure -- you'd have >>> to try it yourself. >> >> I know I can specify the offset, but there's still the issue of having to >> calculate numbers to get that 1st cylinder -- and I can't use it from a >> script. It's interactive. >> > > If you're always using partition #1, then shouldn't the calculations always > be the same, and thus pre-computable?
The start, but there are cases where I might want the partition to be larger than in other cases, and I'd still have to figure out the start for the swap partition. On that note -- I noticed that when Squeeze created the swap partition on my original CF card drive, it made it an extended partition and on the test copy, it automatically created a swap after boot that was also an extended partition. Is that s.o.p.? Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e6f8d3db-0d5b-4b34-880e-25b977b4b...@halblog.com
