Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:44:10 -0500 (EST), David Goodenough wrote:
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> 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.
What happened to /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4? How can there be a /dev/hda5
without all the partitions in between?
> The really odd thing is that qtparted is running on the kernel which
> can not see /dev/hda5.
Perhaps qtparted reads the partition table directly, rather than
relying on the kernel for this information.
> 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).
This is pure guesswork, but maybe the kernel stopped when it couldn't
find /dev/hda3 and assumed that there was nothing beyond.
Maybe creating dummy partitions /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4 would allow
the kernel to find /dev/hda5. It's worth a shot.
I'm not even addressing the issue of SCSI vs ATA. I'll leave that
to those who know more about it.
(David, please excuse the duplicate. I accidentally replied to you
personally instead of to the list.)
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