Re: [gentoo-user] GPT newbee needs some help

[covici]

R0b0t1  wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Helmut Jarausch  wrote:
> > So, what did I miss?
> >
> > Many thanks for your help,
> > Helmut
> 
> The disk may be failing. If it isn't, try zeroing the start of it
> and/or repartitioning it. The two programs are essentially the same.
> 

What happens if you use gdisk again and use the p command?

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Re: [gentoo-user] GPT newbee needs some help

[R0b0t1]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Helmut Jarausch  wrote:
> So, what did I miss?
>
> Many thanks for your help,
> Helmut

The disk may be failing. If it isn't, try zeroing the start of it
and/or repartitioning it. The two programs are essentially the same.

Re: [gentoo-user] GPT newbee needs some help

[Mick]

On Thursday 21 Jul 2016 19:36:51 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> having formatted dozens of hard disks with fdisk, I'm lost with GPT
> partitioning.
> 
> My new drive was preformatted for Windows, so I first deleted the two
> partitions which were present.
> Unfortunately I've used fdisk.
> Then I tried to use gdisk. I have created 4 partitions, the first of
> which started at sector 2048.
> I wrote the partition table back to disk, synced and remove the
> (portable USB-) disk from my system.
> Then I connected it again.
> Now my problem is, that my system only shows  /dev/sde and /dev/sde1
> whereas I expected to see
> /dev/sde1 ,.../dev/sde4 .
> 
> So, what did I miss?
> 
> Many thanks for your help,
> Helmut

Are you sure you wrote the partition to disk?  If you pressed "q" to quit the 
application without first pressing "w" to write your changes to disk your 
entries would be lost.

From what you state you have a disk /dev/sde, on which you have created/saved 
only one partition, /dev/sde1.

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