setup-storage: disklabel doesn't work

[Jens Rosenboom]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 06:43:47PM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > 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.
> 
> This should finally be fixed in 3.2.17+experimental1. It would be great if you
> could try that one, but probably you don't have a disk with a bad configuration
> anymore :-)

I came across another old machine recently and the installation
went through fine, so yes, seems to be fixed.
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