Allow Disko to be run in a systemd service

Before this change, if you created a systemd service that ran
“disko --mode disko <path-to-config>”, then you would (probably) get
this error:

    disk-deactivate: line 6: /dev/stderr: No such device or address

Since disk-deactivate uses “set -e”, that error would prevent
disk-deactivate from actually deactivating any disks. The problem is
that disk-deactivate tries to print text to stderr by doing this:

    echo "Text" >/dev/stderr

systemd.exec(5) explains why that doesn’t work and goes on to say [1]:

> This means when executing shell scripts the construct
> **echo "hello" > /dev/stderr** for writing text to stderr will not
> work. To mitigate this use the construct **echo "hello" >&2** instead,
> which is mostly equivalent and avoids this pitfall.

[1]: <https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.exec.html#StandardOutput=>

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You can test this commit by doing the following:

1. Download a copy of this gist:
   <https://gist.github.com/Jayman2000/60b483659e89283716582ac38856dca6>

2.  Build a custom NixOS installation ISO that contains a systemd service
    that runs disko:

        nix-build --arg diskoDir <path-to-disko-repo> <path-to-gist>

    Once that command finishes, the ISO will be in ./result/iso/.

3. Create a VM. Make sure that it has a VirtIO disk that’s more than
   500M large. Also make sure that it has an optical disc drive.

4. Put the ISO file from step 2 into the VM’s optical disc drive.

5. Turn on the VM and boot into the installation ISO.

6. Start the systemd service:

    sudo systemctl start disko-test

7. Check journalctl to see if there are any errors related to
   disk-deactivate.
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Jason Yundt 2024-02-15 13:20:25 -05:00 committed by mergify[bot]
parent 2cb47338ec
commit 810eccbad2

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@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ set -efux -o pipefail
# dependencies: bash jq util-linux lvm2 mdadm zfs
disk=$(realpath "$1")
lsblk -a -f >/dev/stderr
lsblk -a -f >&2
lsblk --output-all --json | jq -r --arg disk_to_clear "$disk" -f "$(dirname "$0")/disk-deactivate.jq" | bash -x
lsblk -a -f >/dev/stderr
lsblk -a -f >&2