GNU bug report logs - #55184
XFS partition could not be created on NVMe disk via parted command

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Package: parted;

Reported by: Hossein Ojani <hossein.ojani <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 14:10:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: "Brian C. Lane" <bcl <at> redhat.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Brian C. Lane" <bcl <at> redhat.com>
To: Hossein Ojani <hossein.ojani <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 55184-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55184: XFS partition could not be created on NVMe disk via
 parted command
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 08:41:31 -0700

On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 09:12:25AM -0400, Hossein Ojani wrote:
> Hi Team,
> 
> I am writing this email to you because of an error that I've been
> encountering using parted command on a NVMe disk.
> 
> Using an Ubuntu 20.04 dist, I've been trying to create partitions on a NVMe
> disk though I see errors. Below I will put just one of the conditions that
> I've faced errors, but there are several.


> *(parted) mkpart extended xfs 1074MB 1574MB *
> Error: Invalid number.

That's because an extended partition is a container for logical
partitions, it doesn't have a filesystem on it, the logical partition
does.

Brian

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Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT) - weldr.io - lorax - parted - pykickstart
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