Hello, On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 09:37:58AM +0300, Reco wrote: > Running parted on a logical volume is definitely not the best of ideas.
As an aside, I do this all the time and it works fine. The logical volumes are exported to virtual machines as their main disk, so they may appear as /dev/vgname/lvname on the host which when partitioned and presented to a guest will show as /dev/xvda{1,2,…}. If I want to later manipulate the partition table from outside the guest I may run parted on the /dev/vgname/lvname. Similar is expected to work on disk image files. Direct access in the host to the partitions on such a thing as block devices can be enabled by using kpartx (or fiddling with offsets in losetup, but life is too short!). Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting