Hello gang,
I am in the process of writing a sort of Arch Linux installer in python, as a side project. I am curious as to whether or not there are modules to partition the disks based on input that a user provides (size, label, etc.). If so, what is the name of the module and where can i find the documentation? If there are no such modules, which program works best? I am ideally looking for a program that is noninteractive, and can take information in gigabytes. Something along the lines of program --unit GiB --size 450. --label rootfs. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. For an understanding of my code, you may view it at http://archinstall.codeplex.com Thank you very much in advance.

There are some live cd sort of tests for memory and then they make ram drives based on that number.

I don't see any reason you can't make a python script to construct a partition structure. Does Arch have python by default?

Rewriting parted, gdisk or fdisk in python might not be the best idea. I would recommend to do all you user interface (that includes reading of a config file, or reading command line parameters) in Python, just as you wish. Calculate whatever is needed to get the number of sectors etc. And then execute a shell command like sfdisk to write the proper parameters to the partition table.

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OpenLMI's "lmi.shell" python module will do what you need.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/openlmi-tools/0.10.4

http://docs.openlmi.org/en/latest/op...ge/python.html