On Wednesday, 19 December 2018 18:46:40 GMT Grant Taylor wrote: > On 12/19/2018 04:43 AM, Mick wrote:
> > Partition table holds up to 128 entries > > 128 entries tells me that the disk has GPT partition table, not a > classis MS-DOS / PC-BIOS partition table. > > This sounds like the (what I understand to be) the classic protection > partition that GPT fakes in PC-BIOS partition tables. > > Do you have GPT partition support in your kernel? > > I'm guessing the one partition that you see is the size of the entire drive. > > Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33 > > First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134 > > Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries > > Total free space is 4770 sectors (2.3 MiB) > > > > Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name > > > > 1 2048 821247 400.0 MiB 2700 Basic data > > partition > > 2 821248 1353727 260.0 MiB EF00 EFI system > > partition > > 3 1353728 1615871 128.0 MiB 0C01 Microsoft > > reserved > > > > ... > > > > 4 1615872 1911737034 910.8 GiB 0700 Basic data > > partition > > 5 1911738368 1915412479 1.8 GiB 2700 > > 6 1915412480 1953523711 18.2 GiB 0700 Basic data > > partition > > > > I can see partition 4 I was trying to recover, but could not add it: > > > > partx --show --nr 4 /dev/sdb > > NR START END SECTORS SIZE NAME UUID > > > > 4 1615872 1911737034 1910121163 910.8G Basic data partition fea85fb3- > > > > cfdb-4868-a1ad-bab264dad237 > > > > partx --add --nr 4 /dev/sdb > > partx: /dev/sdb: error adding partition 4 > > > > partx --add /dev/sdb > > partx: /dev/sdb: error adding partitions 1-6 > > That really sounds like your kernel doesn't have GPT support (loaded). Grant, you're spot on! Symbol: EFI_PARTITION [=n] I was under the impression I had it enabled, but clearly I hadn't on this PC; which has a legacy BIOS with an MBR disk and which I used for troubleshooting the faulty drive after I removed it from the laptop. Lesson learned. ;-) -- Regards, Mick
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