Re: cloud-init issues with new sfdisk

[Pádraig Brady]

On 02/03/15 05:30, Dusty Mabe wrote:
>  
>  The "new" sfdisk that was rewritten (see [1]) doesn't support an option
> that 
>  is used by growpart (which is used by cloud-init). Below is the error that occurs
>  in the TC7 compose at [2]:
>  
>  [root@t7 ~]# growpart --dry-run /dev/vda 1                                               
>                                                                                           
>                          
>  failed [sfd_geom:1] sfdisk /dev/vda --show-pt-geometry
>  sfdisk: unrecognized option '--show-pt-geometry'
>  
>  Does anyone know of an existing bug report for this? If not I'll write one up.
>  
>  Dusty
>  
>  [1] -
> https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/1881390de25df8587b8fc281c45...
>  [2] - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=9097429 
You're right that that option was removed with:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=v2....

Now it's a very little used option, and according to the following,
growpart seems to be the only user.:
http://codesearch.debian.net/results/show-pt-geometry/page_1

Karel is there an alternative that growpart could use?

thanks,
Pádraig.