Re: Wrong disk size when partitioning

[Joel Granados]

I'm assuming the kernel sees the partitions.
What does `cat /proc/partitions` say?

Regards
----- "Raj Mathur" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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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Joel Andres Granados
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