From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Dilger Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 15:08:20 -0600 Message-ID: <20011002150820.N8954@turbolinux.com> References: <20011002202934.G14582@wiggy.net> <20011002220053.H14582@wiggy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011002220053.H14582@wiggy.net> Subject: [linux-lvm] Re: partition table read incorrectly Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-lvm@sistina.com 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? Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert