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

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> 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
> 

So, I did

$sudo parted /dev/sdb
GNU Parted 2.3
Using /dev/sdb
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) mklabel msdos
(parted) quit                                                             
Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.       

Even after this, I get the following error if I go back to gparted and try 
to create a new partition.

$sudo gparted /dev/sdb
======================
libparted : 2.3
======================
/dev/sdb: unrecognised disk label


I also upgraded to the latest kernel but that did not solve much.

$uname -a
Linux kusumanchi.mae.cornell.edu 3.2.0-3-686-pae #1 SMP Mon Jul 23 03:50:34 
UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux

thanks
raju

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