Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1438 mails)

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx>]

On 2009/05/06 23:36 (GMT+0200) Per Inge Oestmoen composed:

> Felix Miata wrote:

> > Or, as alternative to listing devices in /dev/disk as others have suggested,
> > do 'cat /proc/partitions'.

> 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.

So, you have no partitions on it, and thus you can't yet do any formatting,
or "see" it normally. To "see" it currently you need a partitioning tool, so
next step should be to create partitioning with such a tool. If YaST2 can't
figure it out due to the largish 1T size, the USB interposition, or some bug,
then use fdisk, cfdisk, parted, qparted, gparted, DFSee (the only tool I ever
use to create partitions regardless of OS), Ranish, or any of several other
tools designed for the task.

The following one must or can operate from CD/DVD boot:

http://gpartedclonz.tuxfamily.org/
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
http://www.dfsee.com/
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/ (contains KDE3, fdisk, cfdisk, parted,
qparted & gparted in 5.1.1 CD version)
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