We have a winner, and the winner is parted :) On Mar 16, 2011, at 7:51 PM, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > > - add some exit 1; to usr/sbin/setup-storage in the first lines to make it > abort > right away to get setup-storage out of the game. > - manually execute the following commands in the shell: > > parted -s /dev/sdb mklabel msdos > parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart primary "" 32256B 134249471B > parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart extended "" 134249472B 60022480895B > parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart logical "" 134249984B 2281724927B > root@fw1dv:~# parted -s /dev/sdb mklabel msdos root@fw1dv:~# parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart primary "" 32256B 13424947 Error: The location 13424947 is outside of the device /dev/sdb. root@fw1dv:~# parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart primary "" 32256B 134249471B Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance. root@fw1dv:~# parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart extended "" 134249472B 60022480895B Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance. root@fw1dv:~# parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart logical "" 134249984B 2281724927B Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance. Error: Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/sdb5 -- Device or resource busy. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/sdb5 until you reboot -- so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting. Error: Failed to add partition 5 (Device or resource busy) root@fw1dv:~# parted -v parted (GNU parted) 2.3 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by <http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=blob_plain;f=AUTHORS>. root@fw1dv:~# dpkg -l | grep parted ii libparted0debian1 2.3-5 The GNU Parted disk partitioning shared library ii parted 2.3-5 The GNU Parted disk partition resizing progra
