Thanks JYL for the information. Is there any easy way to get hold of the 
drives rather than looping over the registered value.

On Thursday, September 7, 2017 at 2:34:47 AM UTC-7, Jean-Yves LENHOF wrote:
>
>
>
> Le 07/09/2017 à 08:14, KK a écrit : 
> > Hi 
> > 
> > Am having trouble to find unpartitioned drives through ansible. 
> > I want all the unpartitioned drives put to a variable 
> > 
> > example: 
> > 
> > I have sda,sdb and sdc where sda is partitioned and sdb,sdc is left 
> > unpartitioned. I want the playbook to register both sub,sac to a 
> variable 
> > 
> > something like 
> > 
> >     "unpartitioned_drives": { 
> >        "stdout_lines": [ 
> >             "/dev/sdb", 
> >             "/dev/sdc" 
> > 
> > Currently am doing this with shell which I want to do with ansible 
> > 
> >   - name: Finding Unpartiotioned drives 
> >     shell: for i in /dev/sd[b-z];do /sbin/partprobe -d -s $i | grep -v 
> > 1 | cut -d':' -f1;done 
> >     register: unpartitioned_drives 
> >   - debug: var=unpartitioned_drives 
> > 
> > 
> > I tried doing this but all am getting is last drive but not both with 
> > this code. 
> > 
> >   - name: setfact 
> >     set_fact: unpartitioned_drives="{{ item.key }}" 
> >     when: not item.value.partitions and item.key != "sr0" and item.key 
> > != "fd0" 
> >     with_dict: "{{ ansible_devices }}" 
> >   - debug: var=unpartitioned_drives 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Output is 
> > 
> > TASK [debug] 
> > 
> ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
>  
>
> > ok: [dal-appblx118-16.prod.walmart.com] => { 
> >     "changed": false, 
> >     "unpartitioned_drives": "sdc" 
> > } 
> > 
> > Since the last item is sdc it only stores sdc. Can anyone help to use 
> > this to store all unpartitioned drives in a single variable. 
>
> Hi, 
>
> Have a look here to append result after each iteration of a loop 
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35605603/using-ansible-set-fact-to-create-a-dictionary-from-register-results
>  
>
> Be careful that your device can be unpartitioned, but can be used by lvm 
> directly (without partition)... So you probably need to remove the 
> results of the command pvs from your list 
>
> Regards, 
>
> JYL 
>

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