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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:05:20
Message-Id: hknmgd$2fb$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk? by Peter Humphrey
1 On 02/08/2010 02:27 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > Hello again List,
3 >
4 > $ sudo fdisk -l
5 >
6 > Unable to seek on /dev/sda
7
8 Not sure what's going on, but you might want to post more info so that
9 others might have an idea about what's wrong. First, clean dmesg:
10
11 sudo dmesg -c > /dev/null
12
13 Then try fdisk again:
14
15 /sbin/fdisk -l
16
17 (No need to be root for fdisk -l.)
18
19 Then post the output of:
20
21 dmesg
22
23 (If there's any output.)
24
25 And finally, post the output of:
26
27 mount
28 cat /proc/partitions

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk? Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>