Created attachment 688900 [details] test script parted is not to create partitions on on a FBA disk. On freshly created disk it shows the kernel provided immutable partition and no action is possible. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): parted-3.1-10.fc18.s390x output of the fba-test script [root@devel6 ~]# sh ./fba-test + fba=230 + vmcp define vfb-512 230 100000 DASD 0230 DEFINED + cio_ignore -r 230 + chccwdev --online 230 Setting device 0.0.0230 online Done + lsdasd 230 Bus-ID Status Name Device Type BlkSz Size Blocks ============================================================================== 0.0.0230 active dasdi 94:32 FBA 512 48MB 100000 ++ lsdasd 230 ++ tail -1 ++ gawk -e '{ print $3 }' + dasd=dasdi + sfdisk -l /dev/dasdi Warning: unlikely number of sectors (128) - usually at most 63 This will give problems with all software that uses C/H/S addressing. Disk /dev/dasdi: 48 cylinders, 16 heads, 128 sectors/track + parted /dev/dasdi GNU Parted 3.1 Using /dev/dasdi Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) print Model: IBM S390 DASD drive (dasd) Disk /dev/dasdi: 51.2MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: dasd Disk Flags: Number Start End Size File system Flags 1 1024B 51.2MB 51.2MB (parted) rm 1 (parted) print Model: IBM S390 DASD drive (dasd) Disk /dev/dasdi: 51.2MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: dasd Disk Flags: Number Start End Size File system Flags 1 1024B 51.2MB 51.2MB (parted) quit Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab. + chccwdev --offline 230 Setting device 0.0.0230 offline Done + vmcp detach 230 DASD 0230 DETACHED + uname -a Linux devel6.s390.bos.redhat.com 3.7.2-204.fc18.s390x #1 SMP Thu Jan 17 04:41:32 EST 2013 s390x s390x s390x GNU/Linux + rpm -q parted parted-3.1-10.fc18.s390x
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