On Tuesday 02 Dec 2008, Joel Granados wrote: > Hi Raj: > > What does `parted DEVCE print free` spit out?
Well, I rebooted into an Ubuntu live CD, which allowed me to view the entire disk and make 15 partitions in a GPT partition table on it. It's working fine. However, see under... > 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. Oh damn, I thought the partition table was only the first 1024 bytes, and had zeroed that out. That hadn't helped. In any case, there's still a potential problem with the other disks. Though they are working fine (15 partitions in a GPT each), no program that I've tried is able to show the table (/dev/sdc is one of the other 5 identical disks. All of them show the same result): parted /dev/sdc print Error: Unable to open /dev/sdc - unrecognised disk label. While on the new disk (partitioned through parted on Ubuntu live): parted /dev/sde print Disk /dev/sde: 750GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 17.4kB 50.0GB 50.0GB primary raid 2 50.0GB 100GB 50.0GB primary raid 3 100GB 150GB 50.0GB primary raid 4 150GB 200GB 50.0GB primary raid 5 200GB 250GB 50.0GB primary raid 6 250GB 300GB 50.0GB primary raid 7 300GB 350GB 50.0GB primary raid 8 350GB 400GB 50.0GB primary raid 9 400GB 450GB 50.0GB primary raid 10 450GB 500GB 50.0GB primary raid 11 500GB 550GB 50.0GB primary raid 12 550GB 600GB 50.0GB primary raid 13 600GB 650GB 50.0GB primary raid 14 650GB 700GB 50.0GB primary raid 15 700GB 750GB 50.2GB primary raid This is on Debian Etch running kernel 2.6.18-5-686. While it's not currently impacting the system in any way, it's still a bit worrying to think that I might not be able to view or change the partitions on the other disks at a later stage in the running kernel. 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
