setup-storage: disklabel doesn't work

[Jens Rosenboom]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 04:44:16PM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > It still is broken for some disks:
> > 
> > (CMD) parted -s /dev/sdb unit TiB print 1> /tmp/h7McmrDIeR 2> /tmp/bnYHpUowLU
> > Executing: parted -s /dev/sdb unit TiB print
> > Command parted -s /dev/sdb unit TiB print had exit code 1
> > Parted was unable to read the partition table
> > (STDOUT) No Implementation: Partition 1 isn't aligned to cylinder boundaries.  This is still unsupported.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Is this supposed to be a brand new/blank disk, or what has happended to that one
> before? I didn't expect this error to occur at that stage, so it's currently not
> handled by setup-storage. Did you see it on a single disk only, or multiple
> times?

It was a used disk and I don't know how it got formatted this way,
but IMHO when the config tells setup-storage to write a new disklabel,
which will erase all existing partition information anyhow, you
shouldn't try to read anything at all from that disk beforehand.
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