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



Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes:

> On Ma, 18 sep 12, 19:24:45, lee wrote:
>> 
>> > 2) Is "msdos" a valid option to choose for this hard drive?
>> 
>> Is "msdos" a useful partition type for you?  Try "Linux", and if it
>> works, you can try to change it to msdos.
>
> Partition *table*, not *type* ;)

Are you sure there is such a thing as an "msdos" partition table?  There
seem to be a couple types of partition tables, and "msdos" doesn't seem
to be amongst them[1].  Then there are "partition types" and "partition
type codes", see [2].

The OP probably refers to the "partition type code", more commonly
referred to as partition type.  IIRC fdisk does that.  If it does,
perhaps we should file a bug against fdisk to have that changed to
"partition type code"?


[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_table
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partition


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