mkfs fails on interactive input when no partition is used

Bug #1548772 reported by Graham Leggett
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cloud-init
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cloud-init (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When an attempt is made to format a block device directly on a cloud platform like Azure as below, this attempt fails as follows:

fs_setup:
  - label: data
    device: /dev/sdc
    filesystem: ext4

2016-02-23 11:01:50,344 - util.py[WARNING]: Failed during filesystem operation
Failed to exec of '['/sbin/mkfs.ext4', '/dev/sdc', '-L', 'data']':
Unexpected error while running command.
Command: ['/sbin/mkfs.ext4', '/dev/sdc', '-L', 'data']
Exit code: 1
Reason: -
Stdout: '/dev/sdc is entire device, not just one partition!\nProceed anyway? (y,n) '
Stderr: 'mke2fs 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)\n'

It looks like the -F option needs to be added to mkfs.ext4 to force mkfs to be non-interactive.

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote :

Hi,
There is code in cloud-init to pass the '--force' flag on mkfs.ext4.
It will do that if it thinks it is calling mkfs on a 'disk' (rather than 'part') as would be output by:
  lsblk --pairs --output 'NAME,TYPE,FSTYPE,LABEL' /dev/sda

Can you tell me what version of OS (and version) you're running this on ? And what cloud-init?

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote :

fixed in revno 1196

Changed in cloud-init:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in cloud-init (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package cloud-init - 0.7.7~bzr1200-0ubuntu1

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cloud-init (0.7.7~bzr1200-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * New upstream snapshot.
    - fix adding of users when no group is specified (LP: #1562918)
    - fix write_files with compressed content (LP: #1565638)
    - systemd: do not specify After of obsolete syslog.target (LP: #1536964)
    - chef: fix chef installation from gems (LP: #1553345)
    - disk_setup: correctly send force to mkfs on block devices (LP: #1548772)
    - locale: list unsupported environment settings in warning (LP: #1558069)
    - fix NoCloud and other datasources if no datasource config (LP: #1514407)

 -- Scott Moser <email address hidden> Wed, 06 Apr 2016 13:07:27 -0400

Changed in cloud-init (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote :

This is fixed in cloud-init 0.7.7

Changed in cloud-init:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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James Falcon (falcojr) wrote :
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