This bug was fixed in the package curtin - 0.1.0~bzr351-0ubuntu1
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curtin (0.1.0~bzr351-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium
* New upstream snapshot.
* partitioning: limited support for odd ordering of partition
numbers (LP: #1543263). Specifically targetted at MAAS and
** Branch linked: lp:~smoser/curtin/trunk.lp1532062
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Title:
Drives mistakenly reported as removable
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more info here, and I'm going to merge Robert's change.
On a system the kernel team has, the value of 'removable' changed even from
one version of a kernel to another.
$ uname -r
4.2.0-27-generic
$ cat /sys/class/block/sda/removable
0
But on 4.4.0-2-generic that same sysatem shows that drive
** Changed in: curtin
Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed
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Title:
Drives mistakenly reported as removable
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I'm guessing that this particular scsi controller supports hot plug and
so identifies the drives as removable since technically you can yank out
the raid bays and replace them while the system is on. The whole
concept of whether a drive is "removable" or not is a hand waving best
guess that
** Branch linked: lp:~returntoreptar/curtin/removable-drive-fixes
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Title:
Drives mistakenly reported as removable
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Importance: Undecided => Medium
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Importance: Undecided => Medium
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Sure no problem! I have attached the output of sudo lshw as a file,
since it was a bit long.
** Attachment added: "Output of lshw on system with "removable" drives."
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curtin/+bug/1532062/+attachment/4548195/+files/lshw-output-anakin
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Robert,
I took a quick gander at util-linux source, and it is just reading
/sys/class/block//removable
There isnt' any util-linux specific knowledge that says "this is
removable", but rather its just telling you what the kernel is telling
it.
Would you mind posting/attaching:
sudo lshw
?
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