[SOLVED] parted command for script

[KB1LQC]

I cannot figure out the command (shell script) for parted to automatically allocate the largest amount of space available on a drive. I currently have

parted /dev/${i} --script mkpart primary 0 -1

but its giving me an error.

I used to have

parted /dev/${i} --script mkpart primary 0 -0

Which actually worked for some reason, the largest partition was made but it outputs an error message so I want to fix that. Any suggestions?

[KB1LQC]

I think I just figured it out:

parted /dev/${i} --script mkpart primary 0 -- -1

If someone could let me know if this is indeed the correct way to go about this that would be awesome and I will mark the thread as solved.

[unutbu]

parted /dev/${i} --script mkpart primary 0 -- -1
Yes, this works. I didn't know -1 could be used to specify the end of the disk -- thank you!

I believe the reason why

parted /dev/${i} --script mkpart primary 0 -1
did not work is because '-1' is interpreted as an option (flag) sent to parted instead of as a number. '--' tells the shell the rest of the line is not an option.

This also works, and perhaps looks a little nicer:

parted /dev/${i} --script -- mkpart primary 0 -1

[KB1LQC]

Thank you!