Re: Wrong disk size when partitioning

[Raj Mathur]

On Wednesday 03 Dec 2008, Joel Granados wrote:
> ----- "Raj Mathur" <address@hidden> wrote:
> [snip]
> > In any case, there's still a potential problem with the other
> > disks.
> >
> > Though they are working fine (15 partitions in a GPT each), no
> > program
> >
> > that I've tried is able to show the table (/dev/sdc is one of the
> > other
> > 5 identical disks.  All of them show the same result):
>
> So let me get this strait :)
> /dev/{sda,sdb,sdc,sdd} show an error message. and /dev/sde gives the
> correct output?
>
> what application did you use to partition the other disks?

To be precise, the 3rd disk shows the correct table while disks 1, 2, 4, 
5 and 6 give an error.  Since the disk names keep changing on reboot 
(which is a different story altogether), this could mean sda, sdb, 
{sdc}, sdd, sde and sdf, OR sdc, sdd, {sde}, sdf, sdg and sdh (where 
the {marked} one is the new disk, which is showing the partition table 
correctly).

I used parted earlier to partition those disks too at installation 
(about an year ago), and for quite a while after that they showed the 
correct partition table too.  I don't know at what stage the partition 
tables became inaccessible since I don't examine the partitions of all 
the disks on all my servers on a regular basis ;)

Regards,

-- Raju
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