I updated my OS to Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 but now I have a huge issue : sfdisk doesn't work! I really need it to build partitions on my SD cards for an embedded Linux but it seems that the options changed. How to do to keep it working? Here is the script I use : CARD_DEV=$1 unset LANG umount ${CARD_DEV}* >& /dev/null if [ -b "$CARD_DEV" ] ; then echo "*************** Formatting SD card... ***************" dd if=/dev/zero of=$CARD_DEV bs=1024 count=1024 SIZE=fdisk -l $CARD_DEV | grep Disk | awk '{print $5}' echo DISK SIZE - $SIZE bytes CYLINDERS=echo $SIZE/255/63/512 | bc echo CYLINDERS - $CYLINDERS { echo 1,9,0x0C,* echo 10,,,- } | sfdisk -D -H 255 -S 63 -C $CYLINDERS $CARD_DEV mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n "boot" ${CARD_DEV}1 mke2fs -j -L "filesystem" ${CARD_DEV}2 fi And I get : sfdisk: invalid option -- 'D' sfdisk [options] [[-N] ] sfdisk [options] Display or manipulate a disk partition table. Commands: -A, --activate [ ...] list or set bootable MBR partitions -d, --dump dump partition table (usable for later input) -g, --show-geometry [ ...] list geometry of all or specified devices -l, --list [ ...] list partitions of each device -s, --show-size [ ...] list sizes of all or specified devices -T, --list-types print the recognized types (see -X) -V, --verify test whether partitions seem correct --part-label [] print or change partition label --part-type [] print or change partition type --part-uuid [] print or change partition uuid --part-attrs [] print or change partition attributes device (usually disk) path partition number partition type, GUID for GPT, hex for MBR Options: -a, --append append partitions to existing partition table -b, --backup backup partition table sectors (see -O) --bytes print SIZE in bytes rather than in human readable format -f, --force disable all consistency checking --color[=] colorize output (auto, always or never) colors disabled by default -N, --partno specify partition number -n, --no-act do everything except write to device --no-reread do not check whether the device is in use -O, --backup-file override default backup file name -o, --output output columns -q, --quiet suppress extra info messages -X, --label specify label type (dos, gpt, ...) -Y, --label-nested specify nested label type (dos, bsd) -L, --Linux deprecated, only for backward compatibility -u, --unit S deprecated, only sector unit is supported -h, --help display this help and exit -v, --version output version information and exit Available columns (for -o): gpt: Device Start End Sectors Size Type Type-UUID Attrs Name UUID dos: Device Start End Sectors Cylinders Size Type Id Attrs Boot End-C/H/S Start-C/H/S bsd: Slice Start End Sectors Cylinders Size Type Bsize Cpg Fsize sgi: Device Start End Sectors Cylinders Size Type Id Attrs sun: Device Start End Sectors Cylinders Size Type Id Flags For more details see sfdisk(8). Version: sfdisk from util-linux 2.26.2

I have a partition, say 190 GB, followed by 100 GB of unpartitioned disk free space. I want to move this partition 100GB "to the right" (towards a higher sector number), so that the free unpartitioned free space would then be on the left of it. This partition cannot just be copied carelessly, because: - it contains encrypted data that must be preserved (on the block level), - there is an overlap between the old and new position of the partition. I know GParted should be able to handle this. However I would like to do it myself with command line tools. I know sfdisk has something like this to move partition 100M to the right:

-sh
echo '+100M,' | sfdisk --move-data /dev/sdc -N 1

I'd like to know 2 things: - **If I was to move data manually, using tools like dd (or others), how would I do that?** I believe the end of the partition must be copied before the start of it, like a backward read-and-copy (of course, I would also need to edit the GPT partition table). - If I want to use sfdisk, how can I use it so that I shift by a very precise sector number, so that it properly "touches" the partition that is on the far end of the disk? (so that they are really next to each other with no gap in between)

Today I was trying to write a script for partitioning disks using fdisk (since that seemed like the simplest option). When going through fdisk the first time and pressing n for new partition, the first prompt asked if I wanted to make a primary or extended partition. I q quit. On going back through the same procedure, the first prompt was for what sector I wanted to be first. Since I did not w write any changes, nothing should have changed, right? If I can't predict when fdisk will give me what prompts, then I can't reliably script it. Most stuff I read recommended sfdisk for scripting, but noted that SUN disk labels are not supported. Since I want to install ZFS on root, my understanding that won't work. So how do I predict the prompts from fdisk, or what is an alternative for scripted partitioning that supports both UEFI and ZFS? Note: I am comfortable scripting this because I have the /dev/disk/by-id/ of each device, so as not to be confounded by changing disk labels or UUIDs.

I want to capture only the disks from **lsblk** as showing here fd0 also appears in spite its not really disk for use in this case we can just do **lsblk | grep disk | grep -v fd0** but maybe we missed some other devices that need to filter them by **grep -v** what other disk devices that could be appears from **lsblk | grep disk** and not really disks ? lsblk | grep disk fd0 2:0 1 4K 0 disk sda 8:0 0 100G 0 disk sdb 8:16 0 2G 0 disk /Kol sdc 8:32 0 2G 0 disk sdd 8:48 0 2G 0 disk sde 8:64 0 2G 0 disk sdf 8:80 0 2G 0 disk lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT fd0 2:0 1 4K 0 disk sda 8:0 0 150G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 500M 0 part /boot └─sda2 8:2 0 149.5G 0 part ├─vg00-yv_root 253:0 0 19.6G 0 lvm / ├─vg00-yv_swap 253:1 0 15.6G 0 lvm [SWAP] └─vg00-yv_var 253:2 0 100G 0 lvm /var sdb 8:16 0 2G 0 disk /Kol sdc 8:32 0 2G 0 disk sdd 8:48 0 2G 0 disk sde 8:64 0 2G 0 disk sdf 8:80 0 2G 0 disk sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom

After telling general information (capacity, sector size and the like)

shows 8 columns: sdXY, Boot, begin, end, # of sectors, size, flags, type. The partitions get sorted by Y in their

designations. Sometimes (i.e. when this is true) it puts a note below it, that they are not listed in storage order. **How can I let

(or any other appropriate tool) list the partitions on a block oriented device sorted by start sector**, i.e. by the third column **?**

With this line: (echo o; echo n; echo p; echo 1; echo ; echo +24G; echo a; echo t; echo 7; echo w) | fdisk /dev/sda I can create a new active primary partition for NTFS, 24 Giga large. The syntax is ugly but effective. How can I do the same with parted or sfdisk?

I have two systems with same versions (Debian 11.7, util-linux 2.36.1-8+deb11u1). Why one system shows partition types as UUIDS and the second doesn't and also doesn't recognize that types showing "Empty" as the type? Background: The second one booted through PXE and I'm setting the partitions table as a copy of the first one. To export from PC1: > $ sfdisk -d /dev/sda > "table-file.tbl" > $ cat "table-file.tbl" Notice types are UUIDS device: /dev/sda unit: sectors first-lba: 34 last-lba: 250069646 sector-size: 512 # /boot/efi /dev/sda1 : start= 2048, size= 1048576, type=C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, uuid=A454F449-08EA-48E0-BFAD-7D1190CB1DF3 #Main: / /dev/sda2 : start= 1050624, size= 58593280, type=0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4, uuid=46A2A596-C2E9-4D3B-9518-7D1496202576 # Extra partition: /extra /dev/sda3 : start= 59643904, size= 185546752, type=0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4, uuid=FDF1C229-8C35-4324-989F-4EE98B30503B # Swap partition /dev/sda4 : start= 245190656, size= 4878336, type=0657FD6D-A4AB-43C4-84E5-0933C84B4F4F, uuid=67FE00D9-2F09-4C4C-BD07-7129872D48C0 Moved the file to a shared network dir and used it on PC2: > $ sfdisk /dev/sda fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 119.24 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors Disk model: TS128GSSD452K-I Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xf0c0c704 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M 0 Empty /dev/sda2 1050624 59643903 58593280 27.9G 0 Empty /dev/sda3 59643904 245190655 185546752 88.5G 0 Empty /dev/sda4 245190656 250068991 4878336 2.3G 0 Empty On the first system where I retrieve the data, the types are listed as a list with decimal value, name, UUID. On the new system, the list of known partition types hex values. (Linux 83, swap 82, uefi EF...). Types can be seen running: > $ fdisk /dev/sda PC1: Command (m for help): l 00 Empty 24 NEC DOS 81 Minix / old Lin bf Solaris 01 FAT12 27 Hidden NTFS Win 82 Linux swap / So c1 DRDOS/sec (FAT- 02 XENIX root 39 Plan 9 83 Linux c4 DRDOS/sec (FAT- 03 XENIX usr 3c PartitionMagic 84 OS/2 hidden or c6 DRDOS/sec (FAT- ... PC2: Command (m for help): l 1 EFI System C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B 2 MBR partition scheme 024DEE41-33E7-11D3-9D69-0008C781F39F 3 Intel Fast Flash D3BFE2DE-3DAF-11DF-BA40-E3A556D89593 4 BIOS boot 21686148-6449-6E6F-744E-656564454649 5 Sony boot partition F4019732-066E-4E12-8273-346C5641494F 6 Lenovo boot partition BFBFAFE7-A34F-448A-9A5B-6213EB736C22 7 PowerPC PReP boot 9E1A2D38-C612-4316-AA26-8B49521E5A8B ...

I just used sfdisk to clone my partition table to a new disk,

sudo sfdisk -d /dev/nvme0n1 > /tmp/part.txt
sudo sfdisk /dev/nvme1n1 <  /tmp/part.txt

However, now both drives have the same uuid. How can I fix that and generate a new UUID for device with the cloned partition table? ----- The number that are duped can be seen with sudo fdisk -l. You can see the "523436E9-4DA5-474F-87CA-D784E4BF345D" is shared as a common "Disk identifier"

Disk /dev/nvme1n1: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
[...]
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 523436E9-4DA5-474F-87CA-D784E4BF345D
[...]


Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
[...]
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 523436E9-4DA5-474F-87CA-D784E4BF345D

You can also see a shared UUID with,

❯ lsblk -o +uuid
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS UUID
nvme1n1     259:0    0  1.8T  0 disk             
├─nvme1n1p1 259:2    0  512M  0 part             
└─nvme1n1p2 259:3    0  1.8T  0 part             7d78ed4b-e4aa-4270-853d-6489ea4d6c54
nvme0n1     259:1    0  1.8T  0 disk             
├─nvme0n1p1 259:4    0  512M  0 part /boot/efi   1D40-E385
└─nvme0n1p2 259:5    0  1.8T  0 part /           7d78ed4b-e4aa-4270-853d-6489ea4d6c54

On the partition "7d78ed4b-e4aa-4270-853d-6489ea4d6c54" is shared?

I'm testing a Python script intended for use on Raspberry Pi systems for reformatting and copying partition info and partition data. To get the information from the first device (often a USB memory stick), I use: sfdisk -d /dev/sda >sda_data.txt Then, to copy the same table to the destination drive, I use: sfdisk /dev/sdb