On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 05:54:06PM +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 02/03/15 05:30, Dusty Mabe wrote: > > > > The "new" sfdisk that was rewritten (see [1]) doesn't support an option that > > is used by growpart (which is used by cloud-init). Below is the error that occurs > > in the TC7 compose at [2]: > > > > [root@t7 ~]# growpart --dry-run /dev/vda 1 > > failed [sfd_geom:1] sfdisk /dev/vda --show-pt-geometry > > sfdisk: unrecognized option '--show-pt-geometry' > > > > Does anyone know of an existing bug report for this? If not I'll write one up. > > > > Dusty > > > > [1] - https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/1881390de25df8587b8fc281c451796f7d032dd3#diff-31d5cc325380dbdafe64d0e019846f12R20 > > [2] - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=9097429 > > You're right that that option was removed with: > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=v2.25-251-g1881390 > > Now it's a very little used option, and according to the following, > growpart seems to be the only user.: > http://codesearch.debian.net/results/show-pt-geometry/page_1 > > Karel is there an alternative that growpart could use? The question is why growpart need information about geometry, always when you need to work with geometry then you're doing something very wrong. It seems like an attempt to copy disk PT in CHS compatible way. It's unnecessary. It should be enough to use --dump and then restore without CHS options on command line. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
