On Monday 08 February 2010 00:39:50 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Not sure what's going on, but you might want to post more info so > that others might have an idea about what's wrong. First, clean > dmesg: > > sudo dmesg -c > /dev/null
OK. > Then try fdisk again: > > /sbin/fdisk -l $ sudo /sbin/fdisk -l Unable to seek on /dev/sda > Then post the output of: > > dmesg $ dmesg [null] > And finally, post the output of: > > mount $ mount rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) /dev/root on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered) proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime) rc-svcdir on /lib64/rc/init.d type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=1024k,mode=755) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620) shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime) /dev/sda6 on /home type ext4 (rw,noatime) /dev/sda7 on /home/prh/common type ext4 (rw,noatime) tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,size=9G) > cat /proc/partitions $ cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 976762584 sda 8 1 112423 sda1 8 2 112455 sda2 8 3 104422 sda3 8 4 1 sda4 8 5 62918509 sda5 8 6 41945683 sda6 8 7 64685691 sda7 8 8 20000925 sda8 8 9 10000431 sda9 8 10 10490413 sda10 8 11 10482381 sda11 8 12 20980858 sda12 8 13 10490413 sda13 [HTH] -- Rgds Peter.