Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions
On Thursday 04 March 2010, Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:44 AM, David Goodenough
>
> <david.goodenough@btconnect.com> wrote:
> > I have a hard drive with a primary partition and an extended partiton.
> > QTParted says that it has /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda5 which is
> > what one would expect, but when I boot the disk the kernel reports
> > that there are only the /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 partitons, no
/dev/hda5.
> >
> > The really odd thing is that qtparted is running on the kernel which
> > can not see /dev/hda5.
> >
> > The disk is question is a 2.5" 160GB drive, and is quite new. The
kernel
> > log shows no errors.
> >
> > Any idea what might cause this and how to fix it (preferably without
> > repartitioning the disk as backing it all up would take a while and also
> > I do not know how I would access the data in /dev/hda5 if I can not see
> > it).
> >
> > David
>
> What version of Debian is this? What kernel version? Storage controller
> type?
>
> I find it odd that your disks would be named hdx as modern libata
> should emulate those drives as scsi.
>
This is sid, running 2.6.32-2, and the controller is an Intel
82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03).
I thought that the libata change was coming in in 2.6.33, but maybe
I misread something.
The file system was built a little while ago, back in 2.6.26 or earlier days
but I can not go back to 2.6.26 as udev would not work.
David
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