[Solved] Disk utility to use in scripts

Is there any good alternative to parted, that I can use in scripts? Parted main problem is that it requires user confirmation one each action.

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parted -s or parted --script – never prompt the user
- Worked for me. Thank you!
sfdisk

sfdisk is a script-oriented tool for partitioning any block device.
- Also sgdisk https://man.archlinux.org/man/sgdisk.8.en
Not something I've done before, but have you tried fdisk?

https://linux.die.net/man/8/fdisk
- fdisk is completely interactive, not suitable for scripting. sfdisk is a "scriptable fdisk".
  
  Even the manpage Telorand linked mentions it by name for non-interactive use.
  
  Also, make sure you use the right program depending on thr partition table : sgdisk is the right choice for GPT disks, sfdisk is for MBR.
Depends on what you're doing. There's workarounds for parted that allow you to do things like grow the size of a partition, but by default, you cannot shrink a partition via command line because the design philosophy of parted is that it should by default try to not delete any data. So growing via command line seems fine, but otherwise not so much.

Here on stackoverflow, there's some directions on how to use the ---pretend-input-tty flag to use parted in a script.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52509644/how-do-i-get-over-parted-confirmation-request-in-a-script
- Why there isn't something like --no-confirmation flag?

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