Messages in this thread |  | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Date | Tue, 2 Oct 2001 15:08:20 -0600 | Subject | Re: partition table read incorrectly |
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On Oct 02, 2001 22:00 +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Alan Cox wrote: > > Does it complain about wrong block sizes ? > > No > > > The partition code will look for tables. That bit is fine > > If that bit is fine then how can it differ in opinion from fdisk?
What does the first 512 bytes of the disk show (od -Ax -tx1 /dev/)? Maybe there is still "0xaa55" on the disk at 0x1fe and the kernel thinks it is a DOS partition?
> > The exact error would be good too > > I/O error: dev 08:11, sector 0
Hmm, this is sda11, so you would need both a primary and extended partition table to get that. What does /proc/partitions show?
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