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    How Do You See GPT Partitions on XenServer 6.5

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    • BRRABillB
      BRRABill @scottalanmiller
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      @scottalanmiller said

      The most standard tool traditionally is fdisk and it is pretty easy to use. But fdisk cannot handle GPT disks, so it is falling from use quickly. It is replaced by parted.

      What fdisk parameter(s) would show the entire physical drive, including partitions and also free space.

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403
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         fdisk -l
        

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @BRRABill
          last edited by scottalanmiller

          @BRRABill said in Linux: Checking Filesystem Usage with df:

          @scottalanmiller said

          The most standard tool traditionally is fdisk and it is pretty easy to use. But fdisk cannot handle GPT disks, so it is falling from use quickly. It is replaced by parted.

          What fdisk parameter(s) would show the entire physical drive, including partitions and also free space.

          Dustin beat me to it.

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          • BRRABillB
            BRRABill
            last edited by

            Since this is a "DF for Dummies" thread, I didn't feel bad asking that.

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            • BRRABillB
              BRRABill
              last edited by

              For XS specifically....

              It did not like fdisk because of GPT, and say to use parted. Yet, parted does not exist on XS?

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              • DustinB3403D
                DustinB3403 @BRRABill
                last edited by

                @BRRABill said in Linux: Checking Filesystem Usage with df:

                For XS specifically....

                It did not like fdisk because of GPT, and say to use parted. Yet, parted does not exist on XS?

                Odd that it's not included by default right... lol

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @BRRABill
                  last edited by

                  @BRRABill said in Linux: Checking Filesystem Usage with df:

                  For XS specifically....

                  It did not like fdisk because of GPT, and say to use parted. Yet, parted does not exist on XS?

                  XenServer specifically uses the very poorly known gdisk instead of parted.

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                  • DustinB3403D
                    DustinB3403
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                    sudo yum -y install parted
                    

                    Should be enough to get it installed.

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                    • BRRABillB
                      BRRABill @DustinB3403
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                      @DustinB3403 said

                      Odd that it's not included by default right... lol

                      @scottalanmiller and I have been discussing this offline a bit today. A lot of stuff isn't.

                      For example, lsblk.

                      And then we tried getting it installed, to no avail. I wonder if parted can be installed. Do you have it installed on your XS setup?

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
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                        Forked us over here as this is totally unrelated to the topic that it was in and a new question was asked in the thread.

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                        • BRRABillB
                          BRRABill @scottalanmiller
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                          @scottalanmiller said

                          Forked us over here as this is totally unrelated to the topic that it was in and a new question was asked in the thread.

                          My bad.

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