-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2009-05-06 at 19:22 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
Have you guys considered the drive may have a GPT instead of a standard IBM Partition Table? They are the defacto standard for large drives and required for over 2TB drives.
fdisk does NOT support them. Vista / Win 2008 does for non-boot drives. (Older does not.)
Many / all Macs use GPT by default, even for the boot drive.
Trouble is I don't know how to check for a GPT from Linux. (I have commercial tools I use that handle it transparently.)
According to the wikipedia: “A single partition type of 0xEE, encompassing the entire GPT drive, is indicated and identifies it as GPT”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Legacy_MBR_.28LBA_0.29
The linux kernel should autodetect a GPT I'm pretty sure, but who knows how often that gets tested.
And perhaps that support was not included in openSUSE 11.0 - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoDNcMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9ViYQCePhRb+EbJpBFd6Gdlz/9IMIUe ZzAAn3jCm7qsZLRVTIpT/PAymKiAMRHy =knjJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----