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From: Bob Barry <bobb@absamail.co.za>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: coping with fdisk mutation (was Re: replies)
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To: "Jim C. Brown" <jbrown106@phreaker.net>
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Jim -

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 22:23, you wrote (to Damien Mascord):
> > Because it is possible that 
> > a new version of fdisk will change it's screen output and "wreck" 
> > lomount...
> 
> That's the problem that we have here.

Consider sfdisk - it's intended for non-interactive (script) use.
It is in the util-linux package (though some high-handed
distributions omit it).  See file "sfdisk.examples" in the tarball.

Bob