A Linux administrator needs to provision a new 4TB disk, /dev/sdb. The administrator must create a new GPT partition table and then a single primary partition that uses the entire disk, setting the type to xfs. Which of the following commands will accomplish this non-interactively?
The correct command is parted /dev/sdb --script -- mklabel gpt mkpart primary xfs 0% 100%.
parted /dev/sdb specifies the target device.
--script tells parted to run in non-interactive mode.
-- is used to signal the end of options and the beginning of commands.
mklabel gpt creates a GUID Partition Table (GPT), which is necessary for disks larger than 2TB.
mkpart primary xfs 0% 100% creates a partition named 'primary' with the filesystem type hint xfs that spans from the beginning (0%) to the end (100%) of the disk.
The command that specifies mklabel msdos is incorrect because the msdos (MBR) partition table does not support disks larger than 2TB. The command that places mkpart before mklabel is incorrect because the partition table must be created before a partition can be added to it. The gdisk command is incorrect because it is the wrong tool for this specific command syntax; gdisk is primarily an interactive tool, and its scripting counterpart is sgdisk.
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