On Sunday 19 March 2006 21:11, Jeff Vian wrote: > > You might try fdisk to do the partitioning instead of gparted. That may > be the problem. > fdisk -l only reports the partition table it sees. If nothing it > recognizes is there it cannot report it. > > Sometimes the kernel sees one partition table, and when changes are made > it *requires* a reboot to see the new table. Sometimes it sees the > change without a reboot. I have not really figured out the differences, > but I do know that after a reboot it will see the current table > correctly. > > I tend to stick with the tried and true command line tools because of > proven reliability. > I was going to do that, but the more I read and the less sure I felt. "There are several *fdisk programs around. Each has its problems and strengths. Try them in the order parted, fdisk, sfdisk." Three lots of man pages, and by the end I was thoroughly confused. Rebooting didn't help. During bootup it reported I/O error on device hdb, logical block 0. Anne
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