URL: https://role.rhu.redhat.com/rol-rhu/app/courses/cl110-16.1/pages/ch10s02
Reporter RHNID: enothen, msameer-admin
Section: ch10s02 - Lab: Configure a Project and Resources
Language: en-US (English)||||||||
Workaround:

Description: I believe the content on the guide is wrong and misleading.

On chapter 10, lab "Configure a Project and Resources", step 8.5 is issuing a parted command to create a partition of size 1G. However, that partition is never created (with the example command), and instead, the same existing partition is used subsequently, as you can confirm by looking at the "Size" column on parted, both before and after running the example command:

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[root@accounts-web1 ~]# parted /dev/vdd print
Model: Virtio Block Device (virtblk)
Disk /dev/vdd: 10.7GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 8390MB 8389MB primary boot

[root@accounts-web1 ~]# parted /dev/vdd1 mklabel msdos mkpart primary xfs 1M 1G
Warning: The existing disk label on /dev/vdd1 will be destroyed and all data on this disk will be lost. Do you
want to continue?
Yes/No? Yes
Error: Partition(s) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25,
26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53,
54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 on /dev/vdd1 have been written, but we have been unable to inform the
kernel of the change, probably because it/they are in use. As a result, the old partition(s) will remain in
use. You should reboot now before making further changes.
Ignore/Cancel? ignore
Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.

[root@accounts-web1 ~]# parted /dev/vdd print
Model: Virtio Block Device (virtblk)
Disk /dev/vdd: 10.7GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 8390MB 8389MB primary boot
~~~

This other way, however, correctly replaces the existing partition with a new one ending on 1GB:
~~~
[root@accounts-web1 ~]# parted /dev/vdd print
Model: Virtio Block Device (virtblk)
Disk /dev/vdd: 10.7GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 8390MB 8389MB primary boot

[root@accounts-web1 ~]# parted --script /dev/vdd mklabel msdos mkpart primary xfs 1M 1G
[root@accounts-web1 ~]# parted /dev/vdd print
Model: Virtio Block Device (virtblk)
Disk /dev/vdd: 10.7GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 1000MB 999MB primary

[root@accounts-web1 ~]#
~~~