[OE-core] "parted" vs "sfdisk"

[Gary Thomas]

On 2016-08-05 12:19, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>   your personal opinions, if you would -- i'm working on some scripts
> to do automated installs on a target board, currently based on
> parted, but parted seems a bit dense at times, and awkward, and i'm
> thinking of switching to sfdisk.
>
>   for people who have done this sort of thing, do you have any strong
> opinions either way of parted versus sfdisk? i realize that's not much
> to go on, just curious about personal preferences, and why.

As you know, I went the other way - I started with sfdisk and
I find parted more intuitive and easier to use.  I also think
it has a better long-term support horizon.

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