Scripting Dynamic Partitions?

[lorddecker]

Is there anyway to dynamically fdisk a harddrive based on percentage?
example:
1% for /boot
10% for /
80% for /usr
9% for /var

i'm pretty decent at scripting and i got the scsi or ide part working and i know you can use fdisk to assign the number of blocks, but is there a way to see what the total blocks are? Or is there a easier program i can use?

Thanks in advance!

[lorddecker]

answered my own question... using parted for those curious

then did some bash scripting like
size=`parted --script $partition print |grep megabytes |cut -d'-' -f 2|cut -d' ' -f 1|cut -d'.' -f 1
echo $((size/0.10)) #to echo 10% of file size

[mark1]

Hi lorddecker,

I know that you posted this some time ago, but I´m searching for this same solution. I´ve seen that you´ve accomplished this, and I´m wondering you you could post your complete scripts you are using... It would save me some time, and hpefully some other´s too...

That´s it!

Thanks a lot,

Mark

[lorddecker]

i used parted first, but it super buggy. Like you can go "fill of the drive in" you have to pick points. So what i did is used a expect script.
You can do it manually, or just do it automatically with autoexpect.

Figure out what size partitions you need, then generate a expect script that runs against fdisk.