I'm building a p2v script for work, and in order to make it work I need a noninteractive command that will create a partition out of all the remaining space on a disk.

Example, with a drive that ends with 8552:

Only, it's going to depend every time, what that 8552 is. What I really want is a wildcard to tell parted(or whatever noninteractive partitioning tool I'm using) just to allocate all the remaining free space. Something like:

-or-

Except, of course, one that will work, as these do not.

Am I up the creek here? Has anyone here ever dealt with this?

Yes, I've run into this before, the answer was to use fdisk under awk to extract the size, I'll dig thru my archives and post a snippet when I get a moment of time. Alternatively you may want to look int lshw if you know the device name of the storage you can get its total size there, where as cat /proc/parttions does not give you a size.

When there is no unit mentioned it defaults to megabyte. But it's possible to specify a different unitn there, i.e. something like 100%

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I found a solution. It's sloppy but it works.

It'll have to do.