| BraveheartBSD | Server / ubuntu-server noob - How do I access the hard drives on the server? | 03:15 |
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| uluntu | Hi | 08:57 |
| uluntu | I need help please with: Installing ubuntu 20.04 server: how to delete a partition? https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/652999/installing-ubuntu-20-04-server-how-to-delete-a-partition | 08:57 |
| Walex2 | uluntu: if you want to, swich to one of the console shells of the installer and do it manually. | 09:20 |
| uluntu | @Walex2: I already tried it using cfisk but couldn't delete the partition | 09:24 |
| Walex2 | uluntu: that is "unlikely" to say the least. | 09:24 |
| Walex2 | uluntu: could you explain in detail how 'cfdisk' could not delete the partition? | 09:26 |
| Walex2 | uluntu: ahhhh I now see a "detail" that you may have missed... | 09:28 |
| Walex2 | uluntu: the disk is 500GB, but the partitions 4 to 7 exist only in the next 500G. | 09:29 |
| Walex2 | uluntu: use 'fdisk' or 'gdisk' which do fewer checks. | 09:29 |
| Walex2 | uluntu: oops, no I mistook the first partition size for G instead of M. | 09:30 |
| Walex2 | uluntu: so really it is quite difficult that it did not delete. | 09:30 |
| Walex2 | uluntu: still, you can try to use 'fdisk' or 'gdisk' | 09:31 |
| uluntu | @Walex2: sorry, read abov «fdisk» | 09:31 |
| Walex2 | uluntu: "cProg", on StackExchange too "was not able to format" is not a good answer. | 09:32 |
| uluntu | @Walex2: I already tried fdisk but couldn't delete the partition | 09:32 |
| Walex2 | uluntu: again "couldn't delete the partition" is not a good description. | 09:32 |
| Walex2 | uluntu: a partition is just a line in a table. To delete is means just setting a file or two in that line to zero. Therefore "couldn't delete the partition" is "unlikely". | 09:34 |
| Walex2 | uluntu: a partition is just a line in a table. To delete is means just setting a field or two in that line to zero. Therefore "couldn't delete the partition" is "unlikely". | 09:34 |
| uluntu | @Walex2: Ok. Let me start the computer, try again and let you know. | 09:37 |
| uluntu | @Walex2: I am on the screen where I have the list of the 7 partitions | 09:57 |
| uluntu | @Walex2: When I press space on the 7th partition I get 3 choices: close, edit, delete* | 09:58 |
| Walex2 | uluntu: uluntu: go back to the previous screen and switch to TTY2 as that guy on StackExchange recommended, and then use 'fdisk'. | 09:58 |
| tsujp | What user does cloud-init run as? I've done `su - myuser` in a bash script I'm giving it and it says it's myuser (verified with $(pwd) in the script) but everything it creates etc is chowned to `root`... why? also stuff like $USER and $HOME aren't set | 14:57 |
| rbasak | What are you trying to achieve? | 14:57 |
| tsujp | I want to (1) download a binary and install it (2) change to a user (so I don't have to chown to fix permissions later) and download a bootstrap script and then run that bootstrap script | 14:58 |
| tsujp | in verbatim bash, so user-data | 14:58 |
| tsujp | (1) is done, (2) is done but `su - myuser` is still doing stuff as `root` and the lack of $USER and $HOME means I'm running "early" but I don't know how "early" | 14:59 |
| rbasak | It sounds like your script assumes its in a login session | 14:59 |
| tsujp | Ah, I am | 15:00 |
| tsujp | What am I really in? | 15:00 |
| rbasak | Try giving su "-l"? | 15:01 |
| tsujp | Will do that, I assume I am in a non-interactive non-login shell then too? | 15:02 |
| rbasak | Also if you're just trying to "bypass" cloud-init because you want to give it a simple script, you can just give it a bash script with a shebang as user data. | 15:02 |
| rbasak | https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/format.html | 15:02 |
| tsujp | I am giving it a literal bash script with a shebang correct | 15:02 |
| tsujp | `User-Data Script` that's the one (forgot to add `script` in my previous mentions of `user data`) | 15:02 |
| tsujp | apparently rbasak `su - myuser` is exactly the same as `su -l myuser`, the `-` implies and does the same as `-l` which is what I tried before. I will try again now to double check though with it explicitly set using `-l` | 15:08 |
| rbasak | tsujp: I wonder if there's not enough brought up at that point to make it work | 15:09 |
| rbasak | tsujp: there's a dedicated cloud-init channel - #cloud-init | 15:09 |
| tsujp | how can you defer or "wait" for more to be "brought up"? | 15:09 |
| tsujp | ok | 15:09 |
| rfm | tsujp, you are executing a continuation script, like "su - user -c /path/to/script", right? | 15:14 |
| tsujp | im doing `su - myuser; wget $THEFILES; ./run.sh` | 15:15 |
| tsujp | so I am not, no | 15:15 |
| tsujp | rfm ^ | 15:15 |
| rfm | tsujp, so the su runs, gets no input (since it's not attached to a termainl), exits, and wget runs (as root) in the original session | 15:16 |
| tsujp | I'm missing something in my knowledge base here, `su` has to be attached to a terminal? Whereas `cloud-init` is just invoking the user-data-script via the shebang I give it, hence no terminal only a shell session | 15:20 |
| tsujp | Is that right rfm? | 15:20 |
| rfm | tsujp, what's happening is: your script is running as root, with no terminal (probably stdin is /dev/null, might just be closed) ":su - user" will change to the user and exec a shell. that shell reads commands from stdin gets EOF, exits. you're back in the original shell as root... | 15:23 |
| tsujp | RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHTTT | 15:24 |
| tsujp | I just realised I've been analog-ing this to interactive `su -` | 15:24 |
| tsujp | like.. in my own terminal on my local machine | 15:24 |
| tsujp | Of course once the command ends it goes back to the original context, d'oh | 15:24 |
| tsujp | So obvious once explained | 15:24 |
| tsujp | Thank you rfm | 15:24 |
| rfm | tsujp, yup, unix does not work like that (some oses did!) | 15:24 |
| patdk-lap | why does consistent network naming not work when I have >4 ports in my system? | 16:28 |
| patdk-lap | this boot I have, enp3s0 enp7s0 eth0 ens1f1 ens1f0 eth3 | 16:34 |
| patdk-lap | but those last 4 will change, and they never match | 16:34 |
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| utkarsh2102 | hi pizza :) | 17:06 |
| utkarsh2102 | nice nick you got there! | 17:07 |
| pizza | thanks utkarsh2102 | 17:30 |
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| Ussat | Is it possible to have a "first boot" script tha runs ONLY on first boot ? | 19:29 |
| arif-ali | Ussat: you could potentially use cloud-init for that? I guess, it would depend on how you deploy your machine | 19:30 |
| Ussat | Hmm | 19:30 |
| sdeziel | Ussat: maybe check ConditionFirstBoot in systemd.unit(5)? | 19:31 |
| Ussat | I have a couple ideas, I just did not know if Ubuntu had that functionality built in, thanks | 19:31 |
| Ussat | sdeziel OK, thanks | 19:31 |
| rbasak | Ussat: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/impish/en/man1/cloud-init-per.1.html | 19:36 |
| Ussat | thanks | 19:37 |
| blackboxsw | Ussat: also user-data like the following: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/ZVFcGmVFrY/ per https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/modules.html#scripts-per-once | 19:45 |
| blackboxsw | choose your own adventure :) | 19:46 |
| oerheks | "first boot" script tha runs ONLY on first boot ? you mean OEM install? | 19:48 |
| Ussat | No OEM, but something I would like to run ONLY on the firs time we boot it after install, so , similar ? | 20:12 |
| Ussat | Lots of good ideas, thanks | 20:12 |
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