udev to ignore disk partition mapping?

Question

is it possible to disable partition mapping on specific SATA disk?

I'm using ,say "sdb", disk for DRBD replication where KVM VM is installed directly. Because of that, /dev/sdb got partitions and host recognized it after reboot.

I'd like to compose a rule to completely ignore disk (partitions) on KVM host by connection path if possible.

I've already tried with these rules (and combinations of it) in 10-ignore-disk.rules, but none of them worked out of the box KERNEL=="sdb", GROUP="disk", OPTIONS:="last_rule" KERNEL=="sdb1",ENV{UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1" KERNEL=="sdb", OPTIONS:="ignore_device" KERNEL=="1:0:0:0", SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi", DRIVERS=="sd",OPTIONS:="last_rule"

Answer 1

OK, the problem is that since you gave the guest the whole disk, it's creating "real" partitions so of course the host can see them.

In the future if you want to avoid this happening, on the host, partition /dev/sdb with a single partition /dev/sdb1 that fills the whole disk; then give the guest /dev/sdb1 as a block device. The guest will then create its own partitions within /dev/sdb1 as its own native /dev/vda1, /dev/vda2, etc, and the host will only be able to see them via kpartx in the way you want it to.

You could also set up /dev/sdb1 as a block device for LVM on the host, create an LV within it, and give that to the guest as /dev/vda and partition from there. Whatever makes you happy (I generally give my guests LVs as raw devices, personally). Just avoid handing the guest the actual raw disk if you don't want it to create real partitions that the host sees and manipulates.