parted resize

[Jed Spraul]

I found this:

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On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:22:40PM +1000, Daniel
wrote:
> Is there any chance that you (or even I, if you can 
> tell me where to look!!!) to allow the resize 
> command to accept a percentage of total disk size? 
>
> I'm interested in using parted/linux to automate the

> installation of a windoze disk image onto hard 
> drives, but the size of the drives varies 
> from 4gb up to 200gb, and to have a "resize 1 0 
> 100%" command would be great. :)

Unfortunately, Parted doesn't have this support.

You can, however, type "resize 1 0 -0", which will
achieve what you want
here.

Cheers,
Andrew

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here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2004-06/msg00014.html

I think this needs to be pushed out into the docs and
even the man page as this is super-useful info.

Thanks for the great work!

~jed