On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 22:47 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 19 March 2006 22:20, Anne Wilson wrote: > > 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. > > > Last word for tonight - > > [root@borg ~]# fdisk hdb > > Unable to open hdb ---- it would be nice if you thought about some of this stuff or checked the man page first...fdisk works with devices. fdisk /dev/hdb Craig
