On 05-08-16 12:19, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
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>    your personal opinions, if you would -- i'm working on some scripts
> to do automated installs on a target board, currently based on
> parted, but parted seems a bit dense at times, and awkward, and i'm
> thinking of switching to sfdisk.
>
>    for people who have done this sort of thing, do you have any strong
> opinions either way of parted versus sfdisk? i realize that's not much
> to go on, just curious about personal preferences, and why.

I use parted if available, because sfdisk was limited in what it could handle
(e.g. >2TB disks). Don't know if that's still the case.