After posting conclusions about the two possibilities causing the problem in my earlier reply, I decided to take the risk of attemping to fix the problem myself.
I am fairly certain the problem was that both an msdos and gpt label existed simultaneously on the same drive. Here is what I did: # Destroy the drive's MBR dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1 # Create a new gpt label parted /dev/sdb mklabel gpt # Rescue the old partition parted /dev/sdb rescue 0 -1 The rescue command immediately found the original 4000GB partition, which mounted without a fuss. Thanks again to everyone who helped me work through this problem. Now to do the backup that should have occurred weeks ago before rebooting again to see if the solution sticks or not. Cheers, Kevin Williams _______________________________________________ bug-parted mailing list bug-parted@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
