Hi Raj: What does `parted DEVCE print free` spit out?
I'm wondering if it would help to just erase the partition table `dd if=/dev/zero of=DEVICE bs=1024 count=20` and then create a new one from scratch. Regards. ----- "Raj Mathur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Have a strange problem. System with 6 x 750GB SATA drives installed. > > One failed, so replaced it. Drive is recognised properly at boot > time: > > SCSI device sdc: 1465149168 512-byte hdwr sectors (750156 MB) > sdc: Write Protect is off > sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 > SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back > SCSI device sdc: 1465149168 512-byte hdwr sectors (750156 MB) > sdc: Write Protect is off > sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 > SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back > sdc:<6>ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> > > IRQ 58 > > However, both parted and fdisk insist on treating the drive as a 50GB > > drive for some reason: > > fdisk -l /dev/sdc > > Disk /dev/sdc: 50.0 GB, 50000000000 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6078 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > parted /dev/sdc > GNU Parted 1.7.1 > Using /dev/sdc > Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. > (parted) mklabel gpt > (parted) print > > Disk /dev/sdc: 50.0GB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > Partition Table: gpt > > Number Start End Size File system Name Flags > > Any idea why this could be happening? Would there be any way of > recovering the correct disk size without rebooting? This is a failed > > MD volume and I'd prefer not having to bring the server down again to > > fix this issue. > > Apologies if this is the wrong list to post to, I couldn't locate a > parted users mailing list. > > Regards, > > -- Raju > -- > Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://kandalaya.org/ > GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F > PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that > moves > > > _______________________________________________ > bug-parted mailing list > bug-parted@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted -- Joel Andres Granados Red Hat / Brno Czech Republic _______________________________________________ bug-parted mailing list bug-parted@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
