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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:03:29
Message-Id: 201002080117.21694.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Monday 08 February 2010 00:39:50 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2
3 > Not sure what's going on, but you might want to post more info so
4 > that others might have an idea about what's wrong. First, clean
5 > dmesg:
6 >
7 > sudo dmesg -c > /dev/null
8
9 OK.
10
11 > Then try fdisk again:
12 >
13 > /sbin/fdisk -l
14
15 $ sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
16
17 Unable to seek on /dev/sda
18
19 > Then post the output of:
20 >
21 > dmesg
22 $ dmesg
23 [null]
24
25 > And finally, post the output of:
26 >
27 > mount
28
29 $ mount
30 rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
31 /dev/root on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
32 proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
33 rc-svcdir on /lib64/rc/init.d type tmpfs
34 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=1024k,mode=755)
35 sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
36 udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755)
37 devpts on /dev/pts type devpts
38 (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620)
39 shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime)
40 /dev/sda6 on /home type ext4 (rw,noatime)
41 /dev/sda7 on /home/prh/common type ext4 (rw,noatime)
42 tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,size=9G)
43
44 > cat /proc/partitions
45
46 $ cat /proc/partitions
47 major minor #blocks name
48
49 8 0 976762584 sda
50 8 1 112423 sda1
51 8 2 112455 sda2
52 8 3 104422 sda3
53 8 4 1 sda4
54 8 5 62918509 sda5
55 8 6 41945683 sda6
56 8 7 64685691 sda7
57 8 8 20000925 sda8
58 8 9 10000431 sda9
59 8 10 10490413 sda10
60 8 11 10482381 sda11
61 8 12 20980858 sda12
62 8 13 10490413 sda13
63
64 [HTH]
65
66 --
67 Rgds
68 Peter.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk? Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>