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

By default, Ansible executes /bin/sh shell.
For example, if /bin/sh is linked to dash, it's built echo is different to the one in bash or GNU echo; so you end up with -e characters fed into fdisk.

Try:

- name: partition new disk
  shell: echo -e "n\np\n1\n\n\nw" | sudo fdisk /dev/sdb
  args:
    executable: /bin/bash

Or:

- name: partition new disk
  shell: /bin/echo -e "n\np\n1\n\n\nw" | sudo fdisk /dev/sdb