Re: Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

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Subject: Re: Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:22:59 +0200
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On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 00:27 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> /dev/sdb: unrecognised disk label

> 2) Is "msdos" a valid option to choose for this hard drive?

Yes it is.

Is there some output if you run

# parted /dev/sdb
mklabel msdos

?

Regards,
Ralf

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