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

[Andrew Clausen]

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