Hi David, > > We have a winner, and the winner is parted :) >
Hmm, is there anything wrong with parted as shown below!? > 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 Ok, so I read this as "it even fails without setup-storage doing anything" - is that right? But then, what is it that is giving us trouble!? Best, Michael
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