Re: How to get a 56G disk to be recognized by parted.

[Hans Deragon]

Andrew Clausen wrote:
> 
> Hi Hans,
> 
> Hans Deragon wrote:
> > (parted) print
> > Error: Unable to open /dev/hdd - unrecognised disk label.
> > <-----
> >
> >   Obviously, the OS reports the wrong geometry.
> 
> Yep.  The main problem is Parted believes (via Linux) that the
> disk is smaller than it really is, and it sees that partitions
> are outside the disk.  It therefore assumes that you don't have
> an msdos partition table.  (This is necessary, for PC98 support,
> unfortunately)
> 
> >  However, when I mount
> >   my current filesystem, the OS does mount it successfully:
> 
> Interesting.
> 
> Can you send us /proc/partitions
> 
> Thanks!
> Andrew Clausen

As requested:

major minor  #blocks  name     rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse 
running use aveq

   3     0    6297480 hda 10434 17468 223450 210950 12630 5546 145880 641700 0 
186980 852710
   3     1    6144831 hda1 10414 17226 221354 210730 12606 5298 143704 640880 0 
186780 851670
   3     2          1 hda2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
   3     5     152586 hda5 20 242 2096 220 24 248 2176 820 0 470 1040
  22    64   58633344 hdd 341 864 1211 7260 2 0 2 0 0 7250 7260
  22    65   58629186 hdd1 341 864 1211 7260 2 0 2 0 0 7250 7260


I hope this helps.  Remember, hdd is the 56G HD.

Ciao
Hans