parted - Configure block device partitions

• Synopsis
  • Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status
• Maintenance
  • Author

Synopsis

• This module allows configuring block device partition using the parted command line tool. For a full description of the fields and the options check the GNU parted manual.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• This module requires parted version 1.8.3 and above.
• If the version of parted is below 3.1, it requires a Linux version running the sysfs file system /sys/.

Parameters

Notes

Examples

# Create a new primary partition
- parted:
    device: /dev/sdb
    number: 1
    state: present

# Remove partition number 1
- parted:
    device: /dev/sdb
    number: 1
    state: absent

# Create a new primary partition with a size of 1GiB
- parted:
    device: /dev/sdb
    number: 1
    state: present
    part_end: 1GiB

# Create a new primary partition for LVM
- parted:
    device: /dev/sdb
    number: 2
    flags: [ lvm ]
    state: present
    part_start: 1GiB

# Read device information (always use unit when probing)
- parted: device=/dev/sdb unit=MiB
  register: sdb_info

# Remove all partitions from disk
- parted:
    device: /dev/sdb
    number: "{{ item.num }}"
    state: absent
  with_items:
   - "{{ sdb_info.partitions }}"

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

Author

• Fabrizio Colonna (@ColOfAbRiX)