Scripting parted

[VomLehn, David]

I have a question that doesn't appear to be addressed in the documentation. I can use:

parted /dev/hda mklabel yes msdos

and successfully create a new partition table. I want to script things, however, and if I use the -s option, i.e.

parted -s /dev/hda mklabel yes msdos

it fails and prints a backtrace. Is this a bug or the way parted is expected to work?

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