Re: parted complain with negative number as argument for mkpart sub-command

[Brian C. Lane]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 03:31:13PM +0800, Chunyang Liu wrote:
> hi guys,
> 
> i want to create a partition on my disk using parted. the new
> partition will fill all remain space on the disk. as man page said,
> i can use negative number as argument to count from end of the disk.
> 
> but i found parted doesn't work. following is the command i tried:
> 
> # parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart extended 2048M '-1s'
> parted: invalid option -- 1
> 
> # parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart extended 2048M '\-1s'
> Error: "  1s" has invalid syntax for locations.
> 
> if in interactive mode, the above command works. but i need to
> script it. so is it a bug or it's work-aroundable?

Pass -- after you are done with command line arguments so that it will
ignore anything else that looks like a - or -- arg. Like this:

parted -s -- /dev/sdb mkpart extended 2048M -1s

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