Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/13
Based on [WayBack] windows – How to run batch file command with elevated permissions? – Super User:
powershell -command "Start-Process cmd.exe -Verb runas"
This works better than "runas /user:administrator cmd.exe" as that forces to use the specific Administrator account, whereas the PowerShell way allows you to specify the actual account during elevation.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/13
Reminder to self when checking “new” disks to see what partitions they contain before formatting them as VMFS.
There is a truckload information at [WayBack]Â Using the partedUtil command line utility on ESXi and ESX (1036609) | VMware KB.
A few tips; example output is further below:
/vmfs/devices/disks/ where there are two entries per device: a path leading to the device, and a link to that path which starts with vml. which I filter out with grep./vmfs/devices/disks/ ends with :# where # is a number, then it is a partitionpartedUtil get as partedUtil getptblwill give you exactly the same information,
unknown: the disk has no partition table yet (usually), or the type of partition table cannot be determined (hardly)gpt: there is a GUID Partition Tablemsdos: there is a Master Boot Record partition tablepartedUtil is unformatted, which means it is easy to parse, but hard to read for humans. You can pipe through sed 's/ /\t/g' (as there is no tr on the ESXi busybox)On scripting:
sh (always been there)Python (ESXi 5.1 has Python 2.7.8; ESXi 6.5 has Python 3.5.3; it has likely been available in earlier versions too).On device names:
On errors:
Module 'Disk' power on failed.(in the vmware.log file for the VM) and  LookupAndOpen[file] failed Click here for more details. (in the Web UI): my impression this is usually has to do with either a mismatch of the text vmdk and the binary backing, or the chain of snapshots. The odd thing is that vmkfstool doesn’t always catch this and just returns Disk is error free.vmkfstools -x check /path/to/vmname.vmdk followed by vmkfstools -x repair/path/to/vmname.vmdk
unknown, but for which VMware doesn’t know what to do with it. Basically three things to try:
gparted to edit the partition table.diskpartor diskmgmt.msc to edit the partition table.msdos one:~ # find /vmfs/devices/disks/ | grep T1500LM0032D9YH148
/vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____ST1500LM0032D9YH148__________________________________Z110C4Q0a
~ #Â partedUtil getptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____ST1500LM0032D9YH148__________________________________Z110C4Q0
unknown
182401 255 63 2930277168
~ #Â I know of three VMFS types:
Some interesting links about the various VMFS types:
Busybox has been updated over time:
traceroute now, this is not needed any more: [WayBack] Poor man’s traceroute for ESXi | virtuallyGhetto (https://github.com/leonidg/Poor-Man-s-traceroute/blob/master/traceroute.py needs to be updated to be compatible with Python 3 anyway).
Example outputs on one of my systems, of which I stripped most of the disks as they’re not really relevant here.
[root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] ls -1 /vmfs/devices/disks/ | grep -v '^vml\.' naa.5000c50087762d1b ... naa.600605b00aa054a0ff000021022683ae naa.600605b00aa054a0ff000021022683ae:1 ... t10.ATA_____ST1500LM0032D9YH148__________________________________Z110C4Q0 t10.ATA_____Samsung_SSD_850_PRO_2TB_________________S2KMNCAGB04321L_____ t10.ATA_____Samsung_SSD_850_PRO_2TB_________________S2KMNCAGB04321L_____:1 ... t10.SanDisk00Ultra_Fit000000000000004C530001240406103372 t10.SanDisk00Ultra_Fit000000000000004C530001240406103372:1 t10.SanDisk00Ultra_Fit000000000000004C530001240406103372:5 t10.SanDisk00Ultra_Fit000000000000004C530001240406103372:6 t10.SanDisk00Ultra_Fit000000000000004C530001240406103372:7 t10.SanDisk00Ultra_Fit000000000000004C530001240406103372:8 t10.SanDisk00Ultra_Fit000000000000004C530001240406103372:9 [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] partedUtil getptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____ST1500LM0032D9YH148__________________________________Z110C4Q0 unknown 182401 255 63 2930277168 [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] partedUtil get /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____ST1500LM0032D9YH148__________________________________Z110C4Q0 182401 255 63 2930277168 [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] partedUtil get /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____SAMSUNG_MZHPV512HDGL2D00000______________S1X1NYAGB09589______ 62260 255 63 1000215216 1 2048 1000214527 0 0 [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] partedUtil getptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____SAMSUNG_MZHPV512HDGL2D00000______________S1X1NYAGB09589______ gpt 62260 255 63 1000215216 1 2048 1000214527 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 vmfs 0 [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] partedUtil getptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.SanDisk00Ultra_Fit000000000000004C530001240406103372 gpt 3738 255 63 60062500 1 64 8191 C12A7328F81F11D2BA4B00A0C93EC93B systemPartition 128 5 8224 520191 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0 6 520224 1032191 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0 7 1032224 1257471 9D27538040AD11DBBF97000C2911D1B8 vmkDiagnostic 0 8 1257504 1843199 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0 9 1843200 7086079 9D27538040AD11DBBF97000C2911D1B8 vmkDiagnostic 0 [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] partedUtil get /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.SanDisk00Ultra_Fit000000000000004C530001240406103372 3738 255 63 60062500 1 64 8191 0 128 5 8224 520191 0 0 6 520224 1032191 0 0 7 1032224 1257471 0 0 8 1257504 1843199 0 0 9 1843200 7086079 0 0 [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] partedUtil getptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.SanDisk00Ultra_Fit000000000000004C530001240406103372 | sed 's/ /\t/g' gpt 3738 255 63 60062500 1 64 8191 C12A7328F81F11D2BA4B00A0C93EC93B systemPartition 128 5 8224 520191 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0 6 520224 1032191 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0 7 1032224 1257471 9D27538040AD11DBBF97000C2911D1B8 vmkDiagnostic 0 8 1257504 1843199 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0 9 1843200 7086079 9D27538040AD11DBBF97000C2911D1B8 vmkDiagnostic 0 [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] partedUtil get /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.SanDisk00Ultra_Fit000000000000004C530001240406103372 | sed 's/ /\t/g' 3738 255 63 60062500 1 64 8191 0 128 5 8224 520191 0 0 6 520224 1032191 0 0 7 1032224 1257471 0 0 8 1257504 1843199 0 0 9 1843200 7086079 0 0 [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] partedUtil --help Usage: Get Partitions : get Set Partitions : set ["partNum startSector endSector type attr"]* Delete Partition : delete Resize Partition : resize Get Partitions : getptbl Set Partitions : setptbl ["partNum startSector endSector type/guid attr"]* Fix Partition Table : fix Create New Label (all existing data will be lost): mklabel Show commonly used partition type guids : showGuids Get usable first and last sectors : getUsableSectors Fix GPT Table interactively : fixGpt [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] partedUtil showGuids Partition Type GUID vmfs AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 vmkDiagnostic 9D27538040AD11DBBF97000C2911D1B8 vsan 381CFCCC728811E092EE000C2911D0B2 virsto 77719A0CA4A011E3A47E000C29745A24 VMware Reserved 9198EFFC31C011DB8F78000C2911D1B8 Basic Data EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 Linux Swap 0657FD6DA4AB43C484E50933C84B4F4F Linux Lvm E6D6D379F50744C2A23C238F2A3DF928 Linux Raid A19D880F05FC4D3BA006743F0F84911E Efi System C12A7328F81F11D2BA4B00A0C93EC93B Microsoft Reserved E3C9E3160B5C4DB8817DF92DF00215AE Unused Entry 00000000000000000000000000000000 [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] cat /local/bin/what-is-my-shell.sh if test -n "$ZSH_VERSION"; then PROFILE_SHELL=zsh elif test -n "$BASH_VERSION"; then PROFILE_SHELL=bash elif test -n "$KSH_VERSION"; then PROFILE_SHELL=ksh elif test -n "$FCEDIT"; then PROFILE_SHELL=ksh elif test -n "$PS3"; then PROFILE_SHELL=unknown else PROFILE_SHELL=sh fi echo $PROFILE_SHELL echo $SHELL [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] /local/bin/what-is-my-shell.sh sh /bin/sh [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] python --version Python 3.5.3 [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~]
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/13
Interesting read and watch:
At the recent Embedded Linux Conference and OpenIoT Summit, Mozilla Technical Evangelist Dietrich Ayala proposed a simple and affordable solution to home automation: A discarded smartphone can handle some of the most useful home automation tasks without requiring expensive hubs and sensors — or risking data security in the cloud.
Source: [WayBack]Â Repurposing Old Smartphones for Home Automation | Linux.com | The source for Linux information.
Via Ruurd Pels.
GitHub Repository  autonome/context by autonome (Dietrich Ayala)
–jeroen
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