I'm assuming the kernel sees the partitions. What does `cat /proc/partitions` say?
Regards ----- "Raj Mathur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 03 Dec 2008, Joel Granados wrote: > > ----- "Raj Mathur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > 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): > > > > So let me get this strait :) > > /dev/{sda,sdb,sdc,sdd} show an error message. and /dev/sde gives > the > > correct output? > > > > what application did you use to partition the other disks? > > To be precise, the 3rd disk shows the correct table while disks 1, 2, > 4, > 5 and 6 give an error. Since the disk names keep changing on reboot > (which is a different story altogether), this could mean sda, sdb, > {sdc}, sdd, sde and sdf, OR sdc, sdd, {sde}, sdf, sdg and sdh (where > the {marked} one is the new disk, which is showing the partition table > > correctly). > > I used parted earlier to partition those disks too at installation > (about an year ago), and for quite a while after that they showed the > > correct partition table too. I don't know at what stage the partition > > tables became inaccessible since I don't examine the partitions of all > > the disks on all my servers on a regular basis ;) > > 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