Re: disappearing xfs partition

[Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Am Dienstag 04 März 2008 schrieb Jeff Breidenbach:
> Following up and close out the topic, I got this comment from Eric.
>
> >So parted has this bad habit of making partition tables that cannot
> >actually be read from the disk, and poking the supposedly values
> >directly into the kernel.  Then things work fine until reboot, at
> > which time the partition table cannot be properly read.   Usually
> > this turns into a truncated size due to an overflow....
>
> I'd been using cfdisk and not parted, but that's apparently what
> happened. Rewriting the partition table with cfdisk fixed everything
> and allowed the partition to mount. At least for this boot.

Hi Jan,

Its always a good idea to check whether the kernel reread the partition 
table after partitioning with

cat  /proc/partitions

If it doesn't have you can tell the kernel to do it manually:

blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sde

If that tells you something about device is busy or so you'd need to 
unmount partitions on it or reboot.

Ciao,
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