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Re: cleaning partition table

 

Andrew, could you please reference a link to this email thread in the bug
post, and who is the author.
Aleksandr, thanks for research on this.

Vladimir, you are an expert in this part of Fuel, please take a look on
this.

On Thursday, March 27, 2014, Andrew Woodward <xarses@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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