I got to the bottom of this eventually :)
The task was running on the controller which didn't have a /dev/sdc device
:)
Simply delegating the task to the remote node fixed the problem
Thanks!
On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 10:41:44 AM UTC, deewon wrote:
>
> Thanks Hugo!
>
> I gave this a go with the label explicitly specified and it returned the
> same error i.e.
>
> - name: Partition Disk
> parted:
> device: /dev/sdc
> number: 1
> state: present
> label: msdos
>
>
>
> TASK [role_azure_disk : Partition Azure Disk]
> ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
> task path: /etc/ansible/roles/role_azure_disk/tasks/main.yml:19
> fatal: [dbbox8]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "err": "Error: Could not
> stat device /dev/sdc - No such file or directory.\n", "msg": "Error while
> getting device information with parted script: '/sbin/parted -s -m /dev/sdc
> -- unit 'KiB' print'", "out": "", "rc": 1}
>
>
> I suppose the issue is more related to the disk profile as opposed to the
> parted module in itself? The disk itself was created as recommended by
> azure (
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/add-disk)
>
> Regards
>
> On Monday, February 10, 2020 at 7:01:17 PM UTC, Hugo Gonzalez wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2/10/20 3:49 AM, 'deewon' via Ansible Project wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm pretty certain someone has figured this out so any hints will be
>> appreciated
>>
>> I've attached an azure managed disk to a linux vm but noticed it
>> doesn't have any disk label i.e.
>>
>>
>> The disk label is the partition table, and will not be recognized for an
>> unpartitioned disk. There is a parameter in the module called "label" with
>> a default of "msdos" as the table format.
>>
>>
>> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/parted_module.html#parameter-label
>>
>> So I guess you can pass it along your partition definitions. Just make
>> sure it works idempotently, I haven't tested it.
>>
>> Hugo G.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Consequently, the ansible parted module returns the below error when
>> attempting to create a partition
>>
>> TASK [role_azure_disk : Partition Azure Disk]
>> ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
>> task path: /etc/ansible/roles/role_azure_disk/tasks/main.yml:7
>> fatal: [labserver]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "err": "Error: Could
>> not stat device /dev/sdc - No such file or directory.\n", "msg": "Error
>> while getting device information with parted script: '/sbin/parted -s -m
>> /dev/sdc -- unit 'KiB' print'", "out": "", "rc": 1}
>>
>> To achieve idempotence when re-running playbooks , I'm trying to avoid
>> using fdisk passed to the shell module i.e. (echo n; echo p; echo 1; echo
>> ; echo ; echo w) | sudo fdisk /dev/sdc
>>
>> Will appreciate any ideas on how to get around this
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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