Re: Creating partitions on domain U

[Jerome Brown <jerome@hub.net.nz>]

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Eric Tessler wrote:
| Hello,
|
| Does a guest (domain U) have the ability to create partitions on a
| virtual disk drive (/dev/hda1)?   For example, can I use parted/fdisk to
| create my own partitions on a VBD from within domain U?

I assume it does, though I haven't tried it. However I would say to
export the device as the whole disk (eg /dev/hda) as opposed to a
partition (eg /dev/hda1), as parted/fdisk are likely to complain about
trying to partion a partion.

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