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Re: Partitioning strangeness with sun disk labels in lenny



On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:32:02PM +0200, Hermann Lauer wrote:
> partitioning disk with sun labels seems to be broken in lenny,
> after a reboot the new partions are not visible. util-linux fdisk is
> also unhappy with the disk label, see attached output below.
> 
> Only the last output of "cat /proc/partions" is after reboot,
> the other three are after the addition of /dev/sda2 with cfdisk.

Even more strangeness: 
lenny GNU Fdisk 1.2.1 writes a partition which another etch machine
can see (util-fdisk):

   8   112    8891620 sdh
   8   113    7815622 sdh1
   8   114    1068322 sdh2
   8   115    8883945 sdh3

But when booting the lenny machine with that disk as sole disk
the partition goes away:

[  100.144792] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 17783240 512-byte hardware sectors (9105 MB)
[  100.228140] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[  100.286532] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA
[  100.387682]  sda: sda1 sda3
[  100.429180] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk

And the etch machines util-fdisk indeed shows the same. As the boot above
did stuck in the initramfs who the hell changed the (probably
broken) partion table ?
silo ? or the kernel 2.6.28x ?

Thanks for any ideas,
  Hermann

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