On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:44:10 -0500 (EST), David Goodenough wrote: > > I have a hard drive with a primary partition and an extended partiton. > QTParted says that it has /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda5 which is > what one would expect, but when I boot the disk the kernel reports > that there are only the /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 partitons, no /dev/hda5.
What happened to /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4? How can there be a /dev/hda5 without all the partitions in between? > The really odd thing is that qtparted is running on the kernel which > can not see /dev/hda5. Perhaps qtparted reads the partition table directly, rather than relying on the kernel for this information. > Any idea what might cause this and how to fix it (preferably without > repartitioning the disk as backing it all up would take a while and also > I do not know how I would access the data in /dev/hda5 if I can not see > it). This is pure guesswork, but maybe the kernel stopped when it couldn't find /dev/hda3 and assumed that there was nothing beyond. Maybe creating dummy partitions /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4 would allow the kernel to find /dev/hda5. It's worth a shot. I'm not even addressing the issue of SCSI vs ATA. I'll leave that to those who know more about it. (David, please excuse the duplicate. I accidentally replied to you personally instead of to the list.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/134597558.16750431267720927300.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
