Creating partition using parted instead of fdisk

Question

I have a script which uses the following command to add a partition to /dev/sda

cat <<-EOF |fdisk /dev/sda                                                                                           
    n                                                                                                             


    w                                                                                                             
    EOF

I want to use parted instead of fdisk (fdisk is not compatible with my Linux). Can i use simply parted instead of fdisk in the above script or how can achieve this?

Answer 1

You can use the same script logic for parted, but parted has to be invoked via parted -s (don't run interactively). Wheter you can use the exact same commands in your HEREDOC is unknown to me as I don't use parted. Try a manual dry run, note the commands, and put them in the HEREDOC part of your script.