bug#55184: XFS partition could not be created on NVMe disk via parted command

[Hossein Ojani]

Hi Brian,

Sorry, my bad. missed the point.

Regards,

Hossein

On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 11:41 AM Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com> wrote:

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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