How to create a new partition with Ansible

Question

When I run this on the command line it works fine:

 echo -e \"n\\np\\n1\\n\\n\\nw\" | sudo fdisk /dev/sdb

But in Ansible it does not want to ru

Answer 1

With Ansible 2.3 and above, you can use parted module to create partitions from a block device. For example:

 - parted:
     device: /dev/sdb
     number: 1
     flags: [ lvm ]
     state: present

To format the partition just use filesystem module as shown below:

 - filesystem:
     fstype: ext2
     dev: /dev/sdb1

To mount the partition to, let's say, /work folder just use mount module as shown below:

- mount:
    fstype: ext2
    src: /dev/sdb1
    path: /work
    state: mounted