topic Re: Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format in Firewall and Security Management

Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format

flachance — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:17:06 GMT

We are trying to upgrade a gateway from R81.10 JHF take 95 to R81.20.

It's a virtual gateway on ESX 7.0. It doesn't want to upgrade with the message:

"Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format, and an upgrade is not possible. Reinstall your system and verify correct partitioning."

I'm looking at sk180769 (Upgrade to R81.20 on a Virtual Machine fails with "Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format, and an upgrade is not possible. Reinstall your system and verify correct partitioning") but none of the scenario applies to us. Anything else I can check before redeploying instead of upgrading?

Re: Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format

the_rock — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 20:09:28 GMT

Never seen that issue and I deployed before on esxi 7.0 and never had a problem. Lets see if someone else may have an idea...

Andy

Re: Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format

_Val_ — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 11:52:22 GMT

How does the partitioning look in the first place?

Re: Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format

Chris_Atkinson — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 12:29:20 GMT

Have you already reviewed the output of # blkid or similar?

Re: Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format

flachance — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:40:58 GMT

# fdisk -l
WARNING: fdisk GPT support is currently new, and therefore in an experimental phase. Use at your own discretion.

Disk /dev/sda: 128.8 GB, 128849018880 bytes, 251658240 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk label type: gpt
Disk identifier: DAFBAA60-977E-41F9-A3FF-C13D035F701D

# Start End Size Type Name
1 34 614433 300M EFI System
2 614434 17386294 8G Linux swap
3 17386295 209715166 91.7G Linux LVM
4 209715167 251658206 20G Linux LVM

Re: Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format

flachance — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:42:40 GMT

Thanks I did not even know about blkid

# blkid
/dev/root: UUID="fef8231e-f7ad-4191-9153-45ce793580bd" TYPE="xfs"
/dev/sda1: LABEL="/boot" UUID="4af4cb21-b6d9-4838-9ff5-31789779ca5c" TYPE="ext3" PARTUUID="be21b7b1-d888-4011-b999-b4e65b18bcb3"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="SWAP-sda2" UUID="7d45efe7-cae9-4e1a-a066-82c97882c5f8" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="7bfc6606-1f8c-4700-aa95-6750f9972364"
/dev/sda3: UUID="9RqVZX-xZIz-XFPW-QLxi-3Km2-Hl5s-DcflX5" TYPE="LVM2_member" PARTUUID="b552d077-13c9-4f7d-9e3f-73f5e86618c3"
/dev/sda4: UUID="onBPh2-bx0Y-kw2E-hxFi-EKJi-80kC-6RZ5fj" TYPE="LVM2_member" PARTUUID="ba2c722a-6961-4d7f-b3d5-7311133342bc"
/dev/mapper/vg_splat-lv_log: UUID="e4aa096e-b601-4397-a4a6-51ad23f7bc19" TYPE="xfs"
/dev/mapper/vg_splat-lv_18juil2023: UUID="1e42058f-67a7-4c19-82a3-b1d17cce1ca1" TYPE="xfs"

Re: Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format

the_rock — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:46:37 GMT

That looks right to me...

Below is from my lab:

[Expert@CP-TEST-FIREWALL:0]# fdisk -l
WARNING: fdisk GPT support is currently new, and therefore in an experimental phase. Use at your own discretion.

Disk /dev/vda: 107.4 GB, 107374182400 bytes, 209715200 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk label type: gpt
Disk identifier: 1B9B573F-DDAF-4FC6-A932-D7A8AC0CF57A

# Start End Size Type Name
1 2048 4095 1M BIOS boot parti
2 4096 618495 300M Microsoft basic
3 618496 17395711 8G Linux swap
4 17395712 209713151 91.7G Linux LVM

Andy

Re: Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format

the_rock — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:47:03 GMT

Me neither, good command!

Andy

Re: Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format

Mr_Wolf — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:54:29 GMT

Looks like sk180769 to me. This is a not supported partition layout.

Re: Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format

archie — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 12:55:13 GMT

How can we resolve this problem? We have the same issue.

Re: Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format

flachance — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 13:49:57 GMT

We redeployed the gateway.

Re: Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format

rafaelsimao — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 13:39:44 GMT

For us it was the only solution.

- Disk/partitions were right

- Free space (pvs, lvs and df)

We tried without success:

- Install visible packages from CPUSE

- Import a base version (clish and web) tgz/tar

Also after redeploy, CPUSE started to fetch the all the packages (not visible before)

Re: Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format

the_rock — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:45:06 GMT

Glad you got it working!

Andy

Re: Your partitions are not in Check Point standard format

archie — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:49:35 GMT

https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk181913

I had tried this, the in place upgrade started, but on reboot I had only a grub prompt, so i had to boot grub manually.

But the update had finished.

I wanted to know if this is supported, or only a workaround if you have three partitions.