bug#25756: [systemd-devel] systemd mucking with partition tables ( was: bug#25756: Problems using "parted ... print" on nvme devices )

2017-04-20 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 19.04.17 13:59, Phil Susi (ps...@ubuntu.com) wrote: > On 4/19/2017 12:17 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > This isn't precisely new functionality, it has been doing that since > > years. It will synthesize "change" udev events when a process closes a block > > device after writing, so that

bug#25756: [systemd-devel] systemd mucking with partition tables ( was: bug#25756: Problems using "parted ... print" on nvme devices )

2017-04-19 Thread Phil Susi
On 4/19/2017 12:17 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > This isn't precisely new functionality, it has been doing that since > years. It will synthesize "change" udev events when a process closes a block > device after writing, so that the changed superblock/partition > information is properly propagate

bug#25756: [systemd-devel] systemd mucking with partition tables ( was: bug#25756: Problems using "parted ... print" on nvme devices )

2017-04-19 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 19.04.17 09:01, Phil Susi (ps...@ubuntu.com) wrote: > On 2/16/2017 12:32 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote: > > I think the tricky part of that is going to be that when we open the > > device we don't really know what commands are going to be issued so it > > needs to be RDWR to allow for all the ot

bug#25756: systemd mucking with partition tables ( was: bug#25756: Problems using "parted ... print" on nvme devices )

2017-04-19 Thread Phil Susi
On 2/16/2017 12:32 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote: > I think the tricky part of that is going to be that when we open the > device we don't really know what commands are going to be issued so it > needs to be RDWR to allow for all the other possibilities. I'm sure I have seen a patch floating around some

bug#25756: Problems using "parted ... print" on nvme devices

2017-02-16 Thread Brian C. Lane
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 09:08:44AM -0600, Douglas Miller wrote: > We have seen a problem in some test infrastructure that uses "parted ... > print" to query partition information and then configure test cases. The > problem shows up when using parted on nvme drives becau

bug#25756: Problems using "parted ... print" on nvme devices

2017-02-16 Thread Douglas Miller
We have seen a problem in some test infrastructure that uses "parted ... print" to query partition information and then configure test cases. The problem shows up when using parted on nvme drives because systemd.udevd is monitoring nvme devices for changes to the partition tables, and

bug#22180: Partition alignment using parted

2016-01-02 Thread Ankur Tank
Ankur From: Phillip Susi [ps...@ubuntu.com] Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2015 7:08 AM To: Ankur Tank; 22...@debbugs.gnu.org Cc: artf...@gmail.com Subject: Re: bug#22180: Partition alignment using parted -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 12/24/2015 05:51 AM, Ankur

bug#22180: Partition alignment using parted (Phillip Susi)

2015-12-26 Thread Roderick W. Smith
On 12/26/2015 12:00 PM, bug-parted-requ...@gnu.org wrote: > > On 12/24/2015 05:51 AM, Ankur Tank wrote: >> Thank you for replying Phillip, 1. How do we measure performance >> improvement before and after partition alignment ? > > hdparm -t or dd between the drive and /dev/null or /dev/zero and t

bug#22180: Partition alignment using parted

2015-12-25 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 12/24/2015 05:51 AM, Ankur Tank wrote: > Thank you for replying Phillip, 1. How do we measure performance > improvement before and after partition alignment ? hdparm -t or dd between the drive and /dev/null or /dev/zero and the drive ( for a des

bug#22180: Partition alignment using parted

2015-12-24 Thread Ankur Tank
PM To: Ankur Tank; 22...@debbugs.gnu.org Cc: artf...@gmail.com Subject: Re: bug#22180: Partition alignment using parted On 12/23/2015 8:35 AM, Ankur Tank wrote: > Hi Phillip > > Thank you very much for reply, We are using am335x based (Beaglebone > Black) custom board with eMMC(4GB).

bug#22180: Partition alignment using parted

2015-12-23 Thread Phil Susi
On 12/23/2015 8:35 AM, Ankur Tank wrote: > Hi Phillip > > Thank you very much for reply, We are using am335x based (Beaglebone > Black) custom board with eMMC(4GB). I have couple more questions > regarding partition alignment. 1. Does partition alignment guarantee > performance improvement ? No;

bug#22180: Partition alignment using parted

2015-12-22 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Control: forcemerge -1 22179 Control: close -1 Partitions can not possibly be created on a fraction of a sector. Optimal alignment is much larger than a single sector: typically 1 MiB. Create your partitions on 1 MiB boundaries. When you specify t

bug#22180: Partition alignment using parted

2015-12-15 Thread Ankur Tank
, December 15, 2015 3:56 PM To: 'bug-parted@gnu.org' Cc: artf...@gmail.com Subject: Partition alignment using parted Hi Parted Experts, I am working on am335x based board. We are using eMMC and as a storage medium and parted for partitioning eMMC. I am not able to use "optimal" a

bug#22179: Partition alignment using parted

2015-12-15 Thread Ankur Tank
Hi Parted Experts, I am working on am335x based board. We are using eMMC and as a storage medium and parted for partitioning eMMC. I am not able to use "optimal" alignment option with parted when partitioning eMMC. I get following error messages when I use "optimal" alignment Warning: The resul

bug#20893: Strange behavior when using parted

2015-06-24 Thread Brian C. Lane
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 12:49:31AM +0200, Joan Lledó wrote: > > > On dc, 24 de jun 2015 a les 11:53 , Brian C. Lane wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:44:23PM +0200, Joan Lledó wrote: > >> Hello parted list, > >> > >> I'm not sure this is a bug, probably not, but since I've installed > >> Debi

bug#20893: Strange behavior when using parted

2015-06-24 Thread Joan Lledó
On dc, 24 de jun 2015 a les 11:53 , Brian C. Lane wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:44:23PM +0200, Joan Lledó wrote: Hello parted list, I'm not sure this is a bug, probably not, but since I've installed Debian 8 some scripts I use for helping me to test a library are having a strange be

bug#20893: Strange behavior when using parted

2015-06-24 Thread Brian C. Lane
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:44:23PM +0200, Joan Lledó wrote: > Hello parted list, > > I'm not sure this is a bug, probably not, but since I've installed > Debian 8 some scripts I use for helping me to test a library are > having a strange behavior. I've wrote a little script as an example: What ve

bug#20893: Strange behavior when using parted

2015-06-24 Thread Joan Lledó
Hello parted list, I'm not sure this is a bug, probably not, but since I've installed Debian 8 some scripts I use for helping me to test a library are having a strange behavior. I've wrote a little script as an example: #!/bin/bash cd ~ modprobe scsi_debug dev_size_mb=800 sector_size=4096 parted

Re: [BUG] I broke a disk using parted, so now parted crashes when using the disk

2012-10-31 Thread Jim Meyering
Peter Maloney wrote: > Forgot to include version. > > peter:/mnt # parted -v > parted (GNU parted) 2.4 Thanks. As suspected, the bug you reported has been fixed since that release. With 3.1, you should be fine. > Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version

Re: [BUG] I broke a disk using parted, so now parted crashes when using the disk

2012-10-31 Thread Jim Meyering
Peter Maloney wrote: ... > peter:/mnt # parted /dev/sdb unit s print > Backtrace has 13 calls on stack: > 13: /usr/lib64/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x2e) [0x7fb751212a6e] > 12: /usr/lib64/libparted.so.0(ped_geometry_read+0x80) [0x7fb75121a1e0] > 11: /usr/lib64/libparted.so.0(ped_geometry_read_

Re: [BUG] I broke a disk using parted, so now parted crashes when using the disk

2012-10-31 Thread Peter Maloney
Forgot to include version. peter:/mnt # parted -v parted (GNU parted) 2.4 Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the

[BUG] I broke a disk using parted, so now parted crashes when using the disk

2012-10-31 Thread Peter Maloney
Messed up parted somehow. peter:/mnt # parted /dev/sdb unit s print Model: ATA Hitachi HDS72303 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 5860533168s Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number StartEnd Size File system Name Flags 1 124928s 5860532223s 58

Using parted

2009-08-06 Thread Mark Elkins
'Parted newbie' request. Recently had to use 'parted' - as I share a disk in my Apple MacBook Pro with a bootable linux partition -and- (another machine) put together a Raid-5 device with six Terabyte drives and wanted a file system of about five terabytes. I'm old school (fdisk). I really miss

[ parted-Bugs-303415 ] I/O error when using parted

2006-05-24 Thread noreply
vilbeg-guest) Assigned to: Leslie P. Polzer (dejari-guest) Summary: I/O error when using parted Initial Comment: Hi there, I wrote to you yesterday about problem when i'm using parted I was adviced by Leslie to upgrade newer version which i did but still i have the same problem: [EMAIL PROT

[ parted-Bugs-303415 ] I/O error when using parted

2006-05-15 Thread noreply
arsson (evilbeg-guest) >Assigned to: Leslie P. Polzer (dejari-guest) Summary: I/O error when using parted Initial Comment: Hi there, I wrote to you yesterday about problem when i'm using parted I was adviced by Leslie to upgrade newer version which i did but still i have the sa

[ parted-Bugs-303415 ] I/O error when using parted

2006-05-03 Thread noreply
st) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: I/O error when using parted Initial Comment: Hi there, I wrote to you yesterday about problem when i'm using parted I was adviced by Leslie to upgrade newer version which i did but still i have the same problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# parted /dev/sde GN

Bug Report using Parted on RHEL v4

2005-09-28 Thread Rik Herrin
Hi, I was trying to create new partitions and after creating the new partition, would run the command: partprobe so that I wouldn't be forced to reboot. I got the following strange error: "A bug has been detected in GNU parted. Please email a bug report to bug-parted@gnu.org containing the versi