Creating and formating a partition using a bash script

Question

Is there any way to create and format a partition using a bash script?

I think it can be done with fdisk but I don't know how to feed commands from the bash script into the fdisk shell then exit the fdisk shell.

I'm wanting to create a partition then format it to ntfs from within bash.

Answer 1

I don't think you can create a partition with fdisk without interacting. You'll want to use parted or sfdisk

Answer 2

fdisk reads from stdin so you just need to feed it the appropriate commands. For example, the following clears the partition table, if there is one, and makes a new one that has a single parititon that is the; entire disk:

(echo o; echo n; echo p; echo 1; echo 1; echo; echo w) | fdisk

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