> Hello Michael, > > I've been away, so I'm not back to follow up on this. > > Quoting Michael Tautschnig <m...@debian.org>: > > >Could you do another run and run parted manually from the shell > >you should get > >dropped into? Like so: > > > >parted -s /dev/sda unit TiB print (should produce said error) > >parted -s /dev/sda mklabel msdos > >parted -s /dev/sda unit TiB print (should work) > > > >I'm just a bit worried for two reasons: (i) I haven't seen this error before, > >blank disks should cause a somewhat different error, and (ii) > >depending on your > >Xen configuration you may or may not have /dev/sda really > >available and only see > >/dev/sda1 instead. (I'm using the latter configuration style myself.) > > > > r...@shibidp1:/# parted -s /dev/sda unit TiB print > Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument > r...@shibidp1:/# parted -s /dev/sda mklabel msdos > Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument > r...@shibidp1:/# parted -s /dev/sda unit TiB print > Error: Error initialising SCSI device /dev/sda - Invalid argument > r...@shibidp1:/# ls -l /dev/sda > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Dec 14 10:46 /dev/sda > r...@shibidp1:/# ls -l /dev/sda1 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Dec 14 10:46 /dev/sda1 > > I'm exporting a logical volume to the xen vm. This logical volume > is then the disk. >
You might want to post you Xen dom-U configuration file to check back, but I'd assume that the dom-U can't access /dev/sda the usual way. Maybe Henning (Sprang) can comment on this, he knows a lot more about all the Xen stuff. The way I'm using Xen I can't access /dev/sda and consequently cannot do any partitioning inside dom-U. With setup-storage you can use disk_config sda virtual and configure filesystems, etc. for each (existing!) partition/device. See also the RAID_XEN_VIRTUAL example that is shipped in disk_config/ as part of the simple example configuration. Best, Michael
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