#879555 parted: Option '-s' incompatible with shrinking a partition

Package:
parted
Source:
parted
Description:
disk partition manipulator
Submitter:
Matthias Urlichs
Date:
2017-10-22 20:00:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#879555#5
Date:
2017-10-22 19:55:29 UTC
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Option '-s' is supposed to mean "never prompt for user intervention".

Unfortunately, shrinking a partition still emits a prompt. Worse, there is
no way to ack the prompt, the operation always fails.

Ugly workaround: don't use '-s', and add "yes" to the command line.