CDIST-TYPE__IN...PARTITION_MSDOS(7)

💖 CDIST-TYPE__INSTALL_PARTITION_MSDOS(7) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for cdist-type__install_partition_msdos — part of the cdist fam, section 7. pull up a chair, we're carving up disks 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

cdist-type__install_partition_msdos — she makes msdos partitions, that's the whole job 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This cdist type lets you create msdos paritions. yes literally that's it, that's the vibe — you want msdos partitions, she gives you msdos partitions, no cap 🦋

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👑 REQUIRED PARAMETERS 👑

• type — the partition type used in fdisk (something like 82 or 83) or "extended". you literally cannot skip this one, it's required fr fr

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🎀 OPTIONAL PARAMETERS 🎀

• device — the device we're working on. defaults to the string prefix of --partition ✨
• minor — the partition number we're working on. defaults to the numeric suffix of --partition 🔢
• partition — defaults to object_id 💖
• bootable — mark partition as bootable, true or false, defaults to false 🥾
• size — the size of the partition (like 32M or 15G, whole numbers only), '+' for remaining space, or 'n%' for percentage of remaining. heads up: those last two should only be used after all the specific partition sizes are specified 🫶 defaults to +.

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

# 128MB, linux, bootable
__install_partition_msdos /dev/sda1 --type 83 --size 128M --bootable true
# 512MB, swap
__install_partition_msdos /dev/sda2 --type 82 --size 512M
# 100GB, extended
__install_partition_msdos /dev/sda3 --type extended --size 100G
# 10GB, linux
__install_partition_msdos /dev/sda5 --type 83 --size 10G
# 50% of the free space of the extended partition, linux
__install_partition_msdos /dev/sda6 --type 83 --size 50%
# rest of the extended partition, linux
__install_partition_msdos /dev/sda7 --type 83 --size +
# nvm device partition 2
__install_partition_msdos /dev/nvme0n1p2 --device /dev/nvme0n1 --minor 2 --type 83 --size 128M --bootable true

like look at her go, sda1 through sda7 plus a little nvme moment at the end, iconic 🔥

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

Steven Armstrong <steven-cdist--@--armstrong.cc> — the actual legend behind this one 🌟

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🧚 COPYING 🧚

Copyright (C) 2011-2017 Steven Armstrong. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 📜

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

ungleich GmbH 2021 💖

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and that's the whole page, bestie — cdist version 7.0.0, dated Jul 31, 20, and yes we ate 💅✨🦋