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Not something I've done before, but have you tried
fdisk
?https://linux.die.net/man/8/fdisk
fdisk
is completely interactive, not suitable for scripting.sfdisk
is a "scriptable fdisk".Even the manpage Telorand linked mentions it by name for non-interactive use.
Also, make sure you use the right program depending on thr partition table :
sgdisk
is the right choice for GPT disks,sfdisk
is for MBR.There are few
fdisk
options that work non-interactively, like-l
(list partitions). It is impossible to create or delete partitions this way.From the
sfdisk
man page: