parted - Configure block device partitions¶

# 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 }}"