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Re: 'parted' 1.4.1 not recognizing partitions. Odd!
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Andrew Clausen |
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Re: 'parted' 1.4.1 not recognizing partitions. Odd! |
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Wed, 15 Nov 2000 05:27:05 +1100 |
"David B. Harris" wrote:
>
> Hey there, here's the output from a few commands:
>
> Parted version 1.2.10:
> address@hidden /]# /mnt/rescue/usr/bin/parted /dev/hda print
> Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0-12949.5 megabytes
> Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
> 2 0.0 117.6 primary linux-swap
> 3 117.6 8199.8 primary
> 1 8199.8 9200.0 primary FAT boot
> 4 9200.0 12949.5 extended
> 5 9200.0 11200.2 logical ext2
> 6 11200.2 12200.3 logical ext2
> 7 12200.4 12900.2 logical ext2
> 8 12900.3 12949.5 logical ext2
>
> 'fdisk', included with Red Hat 6.2:
> address@hidden /]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/hda -l
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 26310 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 16661 18692 1024128 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hda2 1 239 120424+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda3 240 16660 8276184 83 Linux
> /dev/hda4 18693 26310 3839472 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 18693 22756 2048224+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 22757 24788 1024096+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda7 24789 26210 716656+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda8 26211 26310 50368+ 83 Linux
>
> Parted 1.4.1, ./configured with --with-readline, --prefix=/usr,
> --sysconfdir=/etc:
> address@hidden /]# parted /dev/hda p
> Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-12949.453 megabytes
> Disk label type: loop
> Minor Start End Filesystem Flags
> 1 0.000 12949.453 linux-swap
>
> Odd, eh? :) Well, here's what the filesystems are:
> hda1: FAT32(duh)
> hda2: Swap
> hda3: ReiserFS
> hda4: Extended partition
> hda5: ext2, rescue partition
> hda6: ext2
> hda7: ext2
> hda8: ext2, /boot.
>
> Thanks a lot, and lemme know what I can do to help.
Ouch! This is a nasty co-incidence. It's detecting a
a linux-swap "filesystem" (hehe) at the start of the disk,
and is getting confused.
I'll change the order of disk label probing, so it finds the
MSDOS on first.
You can work around the problem by zero-ing out the linux-swap
partition (obviously, you won't be able to use it as a linux-swap
partition, until you run mkswap on it again, later). To do this,
do:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda2 bs=1k count=8
Thanks for the bug report!
Andrew Clausen
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