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On Thursday 21 Jul 2016 19:36:51 Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> having formatted dozens of hard disks with fdisk, I'm lost with GPT |
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> partitioning. |
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> My new drive was preformatted for Windows, so I first deleted the two |
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> partitions which were present. |
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> Unfortunately I've used fdisk. |
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> Then I tried to use gdisk. I have created 4 partitions, the first of |
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> which started at sector 2048. |
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> I wrote the partition table back to disk, synced and remove the |
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> (portable USB-) disk from my system. |
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> Then I connected it again. |
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> Now my problem is, that my system only shows /dev/sde and /dev/sde1 |
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> whereas I expected to see |
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> /dev/sde1 ,.../dev/sde4 . |
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> So, what did I miss? |
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> Many thanks for your help, |
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> Helmut |
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Are you sure you wrote the partition to disk? If you pressed "q" to quit the |
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application without first pressing "w" to write your changes to disk your |
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entries would be lost. |
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From what you state you have a disk /dev/sde, on which you have created/saved |
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only one partition, /dev/sde1. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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