On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:09:21AM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> Quoting Ken Moffat <[email protected]>:
> > Certainly, fdisk from util-linux doesn't know about mac disks, and
> > I thought the same was true for cfdisk and sfdisk. Many years ago
> > there was mac-fdisk, I think also known as pdisk, but nowadays the
> > common tool for partitioning mac disks is probably parted.
>
> Yes. See now that 'fdisk' is a softlink to 'mac-fdisk'...
>
> > Please try parted.
>
> Same thing ('mkpartfs primary ext2 0 400000'):
>
> Jan 17 11:03:41 localhost kernel: [254985.117447] EXT2-fs: sdb1: couldn't mount RDWR because of unsupported optional features (10000).
I don't know if any of those tools tell the kernel that the partition
table changedand that it has to reread them. To be sure the kernel
knows, run "blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb".
Erik
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