Description

Provides gdisk_partition resource. MBR partitions will be converted to GPT format.

Requirements

Platform:

• Ubuntu 16.04

Recipes

default

The default recipe will:

• install filesize gem used in libraries/helper.rb
• install gdisk and parted

Usage

Simply add gdisk::default recipe to the run_list for the node you want to manage the GPT partitions. See the gdisktest recipe for examples.

Resources/Providers

The following gems and packages are used by the custom resources and are installed by the default recipe:

• Gem : filesize
• Package : gdisk, parted

gdisk_partition

This resource creates a partition and changes the partition type. MBR partitions will be converted to GPT format.

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
device_name	String	required target device file path : /dev/sda
number	Integer	required partition number : 1
type	String	GPT partition type. valid types can be found by sgdisk -L. default: 8300
size	String	Partition size (KMGPT) : 100M
start_sector	Integer	starting sector for the target partition
end_sector	Integer	ending sector for the target partition
action	String	:create, :delete or :change_type

** Note **

When creating a new partition, you can specify the size or the starting/ending sectors.

• only size is specified : creates a partition from the default starting sector + size
• both of starting and ending sectors are specified : partition between the exact sectors. size will be ignored.
• either starting or ending and size are specified : partition from starting sector + size or partition to ending sector - size

See the test cookbook for examples.

License and Author

Author:: Aoi Kadoya

Copyright:: 2017, Aoi Kadoya

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.