On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:11:48AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote: > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 05:42:21PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > In any case I'll probably write a small utility which just zaps the > > partition table without touching the rest of the bootloader. > > Maybe we can add this functionality to wipefs(8), libblkid is already > able to detect and parse almost all partition table formats.
Coincidentally I tried using wipefs within libguestfs (but not successfully yet). It really only wipes filesystems, which I guess should be obvious from the name. I think it should be extended to wipe other stuff to: LVM, partition tables, RAID metadata being three obvious ones. [On the subject of virt-resize] We ended up using parted to initialize the partition tables, then copying the bootloader from "around" the partition tables. These were the patches which now appear to work: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2010-September/msg00054.html Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
