Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:45:33 +0100 | From | Erik Mouw <> | Subject | Re: Weird harddisk behaviour |
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On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:09:21AM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Quoting Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com>: > > Certainly, fdisk from util-linux doesn't know about mac disks, and > > I thought the same was true for cfdisk and sfdisk. Many years ago > > there was mac-fdisk, I think also known as pdisk, but nowadays the > > common tool for partitioning mac disks is probably parted. > > Yes. See now that 'fdisk' is a softlink to 'mac-fdisk'... > > > Please try parted. > > Same thing ('mkpartfs primary ext2 0 400000'): > > Jan 17 11:03:41 localhost kernel: [254985.117447] EXT2-fs: sdb1: couldn't mount RDWR because of unsupported optional features (10000).
I don't know if any of those tools tell the kernel that the partition table changedand that it has to reread them. To be sure the kernel knows, run "blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb".
Erik
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