[parted-devel] "Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!"

[Karel Zak]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 02:55:59PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:11:48AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 05:42:21PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > In any case I'll probably write a small utility which just zaps the
> > > partition table without touching the rest of the bootloader.
> > 
> >  Maybe we can add this functionality to wipefs(8), libblkid is already
> >  able to detect and parse almost all partition table formats.
> 
> Coincidentally I tried using wipefs within libguestfs (but not
> successfully yet).  It really only wipes filesystems, which I guess
> should be obvious from the name.  I think it should be extended to
> wipe other stuff to: LVM, partition tables, RAID metadata being three
> obvious ones.

 The latest version (F-14) also supports RAIDs and LVM.
    
        Karel



 $ wipefs /home/images/filesystems/mdraid.img 

 offset               type
 ----------------------------------------------------------------
 0x9f0000             linux_raid_member   [raid]
                      UUID:  37c76b91-011a-05c5-d30c-1fd4c5c3dbbc


 $ wipefs /home/images/filesystems/lvm2.img  
 offset               type
 ----------------------------------------------------------------
 0x218                LVM2_member   [raid]
                      UUID:  Vynv4k-APH8-xQER-HSBb-8VJ3-SvFF-PB5O1U

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 Karel Zak  <kzak at redhat.com>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com