@Scott (and everyone else), It has been a while since visiting this launchpad and/or since doing some decent testing.
Nevertheless, I recall correctly, there is this option (also discussed on this launchpad) to work with partitions and disk setups on Azure VMs: just inject some custom data. The custom data option can be used to define cloud-config settings and hence partitions and so on. Daniel Watkins has created a Wiki page, based upon the topic thread somewhere in this launchpad. The page can be found at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AzureSwapPartitions However, note that the information provided on that page is not really up to date and, moreover, it sometimes does not work as expected and/or the instructions are not entirely correct. Just view the page as some introduction. @Scott, with respect to these lines "One path to this would be to change the azure datasource to read: Datasource: Azure: cloud_config: disk_setup: ... fs_setup: ... Then the datasource check to see if there were values in the passed-in ds_cfg, and use those instead of its BUILTIN_CLOUD_CONFIG if there were. That could work, but without further thinking I dont know oif it would suffice. The datasource object is generally pretty static , and cloud- init might not re-read it on second boot (after the user had configured the new settings)." one can state that - it is not strictly necessary to use the "Datasource" stanza, (and) - cloud-config settings, injected via custom data, will suffice (with some minor exceptions), (and) - issues can still occur on Azure VMs, since there is this nasty habit of creating a NTFS volume at stop/start sequences, which habit is entirely related to some lines of odd code in the relevant Azure scripts (and I am pretty sure that a patch has not been created until now) In general, read all of the above with some caution, it has been a while ago for me. Regards...... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1374115 Title: Allow cloud-config to modify partitioning and mount point of temporary resource disk in Azure To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1374115/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
