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Re: cleaning partition table

 

Sounds like a bug to me. Created
https://bugs.launchpad.net/fuel/+bug/1298052


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Andrey Danin <adanin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thank you.
> It seems to be a better way to wipe out previous partitions.
>
> Guys, should we create a blueprint or bug for that? Low-hanging-fruit?
>
> As I understand, we will simply modify a couple of lines in a file
> https://github.com/stackforge/fuel-library/blob/master/deployment/puppet/cobbler/templates/scripts/pmanager.py
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 3:10 AM, Aleksandr Dobdin <sanek.dobdin@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have 2 cents to add in pre-script in a kickstart file.
>> Instead of using dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=10
>> we can use the following commands:
>> # sgdisk --zap-all /dev/sda
>> # parted -s /dev/sda mklabel gpt
>>
>> from man sgdisk: Zap (destroy) the GPT and MBR data structures and then
>> exit. This option works much like -z, but as it wipes the MBR as well as
>> the GPT, it's more suitable if you want to  repartition a disk after using
>> this option
>>
>> from man parted: mklabel Create a new disklabel (partition table) of
>> label-type.
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Aleksandr Dobdin.
>>
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