RE: parted 1.6.6 problem - does not see all partitions

[Joshua Silver]

Thanks for your response. Sure, attached is the dd output of the first 512
bytes of /dev/hda. Please note however that my partition info has changed
since my original post. I still have the same problem however, so I think
this is still relevant. Anyway, what I've done since is run Power Quest
Partition Magic v8.0 from DOS to resize my partitions, which seemed to
complete successfully except that now my DOS partition is unbootable (I
suspect it is because I now have a 1.5GB FAT16 partition -- doh!).

address@hidden:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2             6.7G  5.3G  1.2G  83% /
/dev/hda1             1.5G   11M  1.5G   1% /dos

Updated fdisk and parted output:

address@hidden:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 10.0 GB, 10056098304 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1222 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1         195     1566306    6  FAT16
/dev/hda2             196        1189     7984305   83  Linux
/dev/hda3            1190        1222      265072+  82  Linux swap


address@hidden:~$ sudo parted /dev/hda
GNU Parted 1.6.6
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Using /dev/hda
Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is
1222/255/63.  Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M.
(parted) p
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-9590.242 megabytes
Disk label type: loop
Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Flags
1          0.000   9590.242  fat16


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Clausen [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thu, December 11, 2003 1:15 AM
To: Joshua Silver
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: parted 1.6.6 problem - does not see all partitions

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:13:18AM -0500, Joshua Silver wrote:
> I could not find info on this problem so I'm reporting it to you.
>
> I am attempting to use parted to resize a FAT16 and an ext2 partition on
> a 10GB IDE drive to make room for a Windows install. I have 3 primary
> partitions as reported by fdisk. Parted reports only 1 partition.

This is rather strange.

Could you send the first 512 bytes of your hard disk?

dd if=/dev/hda of=disk-start.img bs=512 count=1

Cheers,
Andrew

disk-start.img
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