Issue
You've created shared LUNs for ORACLE ASM and you are trying to create a logical partition on the new LUN using FDISK -- it gives you the following message: <span style="color: #ff0000;">WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 22: Invalid argument.</span>
Example
[root@aikaiyuan.com ~]# fdisk /dev/mapper/2000b080002002235 Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory on<wbr />ly, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable. The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 19074. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/mapper/2000b080002002235: 156.8 GB, 156892397568 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19074 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System Command (m for help): n Command act<wbr />ion e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 1 First cylinder (1-19074, default 1): Using default value 1 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-19074, default 19074): Using default value 19074 Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/mapper/2000b080002002235: 156.8 GB, 156892397568 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19074 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/mapper/2000b080002002235p1 1 19074 153211873+ 83 Linux Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered! Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 22: Invalid argument. The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at the next reboot. Syncing disks. [root@qarac1 ~]#
Solution
Run "<span style="color: #0000ff;">kpartx -a</span>" after FDISK is completed to add all partition mappings on the newly-created multipath device -- EXAMPLE: /sbin/kpartx -a /dev/mapper/2000b080002002235 /sbin/kpartx -l /dev/mapper/2000b080002002235 2000b080002002235p1 : 0 306423747 /dev/mapper/2000b080002002235 63 [root@aikaiyuan.com ~]# ls -l /dev/mapper/2000b080002002235* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 8 Jun 19 19:33 /dev/mapper/2000b080002002235 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 13 Jul 10 16:19 /dev/mapper/2000b080002002235p1 NOTE: you must re-run "kpartx -a" on all nodes of the cluster for them to be able to see the newly created partition /dev/mapper/2000b080002002235p1