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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Gary Thomas wrote:

> 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.

  i figured you'd weigh in on this. :-) i'm going to experiment both
ways for a bit.

rday

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