I did add exit 1; to the top of setup storage, as requested. That made setup storage exit and then I ran the commands manually as requested. Creating the logical drive caused the kernel notification error.
Actually, is that the wrong behavior? It isn't what we want, but is it doing what it isn't supposed to? > > Hmm, is there anything wrong with parted as shown below!? >>> >>> >>> - add some exit 1; to usr/sbin/setup-storage in the first lines to make it >>> abort >> >> >> 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 >
