Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table
On 20/11/14 11:14, "Morel Bérenger" wrote:
> Le Mer 19 novembre 2014 21:16, Scott Ferguson a écrit :
>> On 20/11/14 04:06, "Morel Bérenger" wrote:
>>
>>> Le Lun 17 novembre 2014 19:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit :
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, berenger.morel@neutralite.org wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> So, what part of that disk should I extract, which could be usable
>>>>> and sharable? Partition table, of course, which is probably at
>>>>> disk's beginning, but how long might it be?
>>>>
>>>> That depends. What kind of partition table?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I think it's msdos.
AFAIK mdos partition tables don't support anywhere near that number of
slices. :(
I 'believe' it's possible to convert a dos partition table to GPT, but
can't find any guide in my notes. Perhaps some other list reader or a
search engine can help??
>>>
>>
>>
>> Could you post the output of "fdisk -l /dev/$ProblematicDisk" please
>> (you'll need to run the command as root)?
>
> Note that I think this output is actuall not complete, I suspect fdisk to
> not trying to show the whole one.
>
> ====================
> # fdisk -l /dev/sdc
> Warning: omitting partitions after #60.
> They will be deleted if you save this partition table.
>
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Kind regards
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