Bug#778712: libparted2: Breakage of RAID GPT header

2015-02-20 Thread jnqnfe
On Fri, 2015-02-20 at 15:59 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > It also shows no GPT either, because it is still seeing the stale > cached data where there is nothing on the drive but zeros. Sure, yes. The fdisk4 output does show GPT info for the RAID device (md126) it just modified, so it is presumably

Bug#778712: libparted2: Breakage of RAID GPT header

2015-02-20 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/20/2015 3:44 PM, jnqnfe wrote: > I agree now that this might just be an fdisk caching issue, but I > don't think this bit is quiet as you describe. The actions taken > and results were as follows: 1) RAID array recreated. 2) fdisk used > to create

Bug#778712: libparted2: Breakage of RAID GPT header

2015-02-20 Thread jnqnfe
Control: severity -1 normal Control: close -1 thanks On Fri, 2015-02-20 at 15:12 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > I'm sorry; I misread what you said. I thought you said you had > removed the information about the individual disks that were members > of the array. No problem. > At this point the arr

Bug#778712: libparted2: Breakage of RAID GPT header

2015-02-20 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/20/2015 12:17 PM, jnqnfe wrote: > What? I very carefully went through every one of them before > sending to ensure that only information about the array (md126) and > the array members (sdb and sdc) were included. I have just checked > back over e

Bug#778712: libparted2: Breakage of RAID GPT header

2015-02-20 Thread jnqnfe
On Fri, 2015-02-20 at 10:16 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > On 2/19/2015 2:24 PM, jnqnfe wrote: > > Firstly, I am not running fdisk or parted on the raw member disks, > > I am simply running generic 'fdisk -l' and 'parted -l' commands, > > which return information about all disks. To simplify matters

Bug#778712: libparted2: Breakage of RAID GPT header

2015-02-20 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/19/2015 2:24 PM, jnqnfe wrote: > Firstly, I am not running fdisk or parted on the raw member disks, > I am simply running generic 'fdisk -l' and 'parted -l' commands, > which return information about all disks. To simplify matters I > removed info

Bug#778712: libparted2: Breakage of RAID GPT header

2015-02-19 Thread jnqnfe
On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 23:27 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > All of the error messages shown in the logs you sent so far involve > the raw disks ( sdb, etc ) rather than the raid array. You certainly > should not be running fdisk or parted on the raw disk, and responding > to the error messages by say

Bug#778712: libparted2: Breakage of RAID GPT header

2015-02-18 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/18/2015 05:15 PM, jnqnfe wrote: >> Then you need to only manipulate md126 and ignore sdb and sdc. >> Most of what you seem to be reporting involves looking directly >> at the individual disks, which you must not do as that will >> present a par

Bug#778712: libparted2: Breakage of RAID GPT header

2015-02-18 Thread jnqnfe
On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 16:35 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > On 2/18/2015 4:05 PM, jnqnfe wrote: > > Background = I have a 'fake-raid' RAID0 array, > > created from two HDDs using my motherboard firmware. This is not > > used for root, just data. > > FYI, unless you have to dual boot w

Bug#778712: libparted2: Breakage of RAID GPT header

2015-02-18 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/18/2015 4:05 PM, jnqnfe wrote: > Background = I have a 'fake-raid' RAID0 array, > created from two HDDs using my motherboard firmware. This is not > used for root, just data. FYI, unless you have to dual boot with windows, you sho

Bug#778712: libparted2: Breakage of RAID GPT header

2015-02-18 Thread jnqnfe
Package: libparted2 Version: 3.2-6 Severity: grave libparted2 breaks my RAID GPT header! There appears to be a disagreement between parted and fdisk as to the correct size. fdisk is happy after creating a GPT partition table, but parted is not and seems to be forcibly applying what it believes to