Ubuntu cloud image partition numbering

Bug #2072929 reported by Julian Pelizäus
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
cloud-images
In Progress
High
Simon Poirier
Noble
New
Undecided
Unassigned
Oracular
In Progress
High
Simon Poirier
livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)
In Progress
Undecided
Simon Poirier

Bug Description

Hi,

When downloading an image (e.g. noble) from https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/ and unpacking it onto a disk (using `qemu-img`), we see that the partition numbering starts at 1, skips number 2-13 and continues with 14:

sda 8:0 0 10G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 9G 0 part /
├─sda14 8:14 0 4M 0 part
├─sda15 8:15 0 106M 0 part /boot/efi
└─sda16 259:0 0 913M 0 part /boot

This hits a limitation in Dell's PowerFlex SDC (storage) when trying to launch Ubuntu noble based VMs backed by PowerFlex disks.
We have experienced this recently in the LXD team whilst adding support for SDC in our LXD PowerFlex storage driver.

Dell supports at max 15 partitions on their disks, see https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/scaleio/flex-software-to-46x/product-limits?guid=guid-a8f27cd4-d5f7-4993-93ea-0a739256633d&lang=en-us:

> Maximum file system partitions per volume: 15

This wasn't an issue before as the maximum partition number in the jammy image is 15.

In order to resolve this issue a proposal could be changing the partition numbers to start at 13 so that we still stay in the limit of 15.

Tags: noble dell lxd

Related branches

description: updated
John Chittum (jchittum)
Changed in cloud-images:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Simon Poirier (simpoir)
Simon Poirier (simpoir)
Changed in cloud-images:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Changed in livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Simon Poirier (simpoir)
status: New → In Progress
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