On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Carlos E. R.
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On Wednesday, 2009-05-06 at 15:45 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
linux-k9na:/home/siberia # cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name
8 0 117220824 sda 8 1 8225248 sda1 8 2 5566522 sda2 8 3 12289725 sda3 8 4 91136745 sda4 8 16 312571224 sdb 8 17 2104483 sdb1 8 18 20972857 sdb2 8 19 289491300 sdb3 8 32 2147483648 sdc
The disk is sdc.
And there are no partitions. Compare it with sda[n] and sdb[n].
Where are you with this? Clearly the system has recognized the disk and integrated as much as possible into the known device configuration.
Have you partitioned it? Until you do, you won't get further.
Technically, of course, that's not true. You can use the unpartitioned device itself, but a terabyte is a largish file system volume (and an insane swap partition).
I prefer "fdisk -l" to list partitions, it gives more information. However, I think Per said he connected the disk to a Vista machine and it worked. If the disk was already partitioned there, or even contains data, it would be a bad idea to try partitioning or formatting it in Linux.
Now that I think, I remember he said he tried formatting it with YaST which saw the wrong size.
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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.) The linux kernel should autodetect a GPT I'm pretty sure, but who knows how often that gets tested. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org