A short note on How to change the Storage Repository label for Xen XCP-ng.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While creating a new storage repository I had done a quick copy \/ paste without noticing that the pasted double quotes surrounding the volume label were not accepted and converted to the ? mark character. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is what I pasted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
but this is what appeared and I hit enter before realising the change (look for the ? marks towards the end in the name-label parameter):<\/p>\n\n\n\n and what I ended up with was <\/p>\n\n\n\n To correct it, and add a longer description I used:<\/p>\n\n\n\n …and…..<\/p>\n\n\n\n Which results in a final check as <\/p>\n\n\n\n In case you are wondering, all the uuid’s have been changed to protect the innocent and no face masks were harmed in the making of this post…. (if you are reading this in a few years, then the face mask reference may be obscure. 2020 the year that never was.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A short note on How to change the Storage Repository label for Xen XCP-ng. While creating a new storage repository I had done a quick copy \/ paste without noticing that the pasted double quotes surrounding the volume label were not accepted and converted to the ? mark character. This is what I pasted: xe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}xe sr-create content-type=user device-config:device=\/dev\/disk\/by-id\/scsi-3600508b400dc45c8k47fe45763a27qq8-part1 host-uuid=19458bfa-48e3-42d1-b345-266j6fdq4ed6f name-label=\u201dLocal Storage 2\u201d shared=false type=lvm<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nxe sr-create content-type=user device-config:device=\/dev\/disk\/by-id\/scsi-3600508b400dc45c8k47fe45763a27qq8-part1 host-uuid=19458bfa-48e3-42d1-b345-266j6fdq4ed6f name-label=?Local Storage 2? shared=false type=lvm<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nuuid ( RO) : ff2c5f2e-9v8c-45j4-bxc0-50a338qe63ac
name-label ( RW): ?Local <--- this is wrong \/ ugly
name-description ( RW):
host ( RO): my-svr-name
type ( RO): lvm
content-type ( RO): user<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nxe sr-param-set uuid=ff2c5f2e-9v8c-45j4-bxc0-50a338qe63ac name-label=\"Local Storage 2\"<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nxe sr-param-set uuid=ff2c5f2e-9v8c-45j4-bxc0-50a338qe63ac name-description=\"RAID Drives 4,5,6,7\"<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nuuid ( RO) : ff2c5f2e-9v8c-45j4-bxc0-50a338qe63ac
name-label ( RW): Local Storage 2
name-description ( RW): RAID Drives 4,5,6,7
host ( RO): my-svr-name
type ( RO): lvm
content-type ( RO): user<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n