/dev/hdc partitions not showing
Zane C.B.
zanecb at midwest-connections.com
Fri Jun 23 17:40:21 UTC 2006
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:23:47 -0700
Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 12:24 -0500, Zane C.B. wrote:
> > Any way to tell the kernel to take another look at this device? I
> > partitioned it using fdisk. I can see the partitions if I point
> > something like fdisk at /dev/hdc, but I don't see them if I do
> > a /dev/hdc*.
>
> fdisk only deals with entire drives (such as /dev/hdc). "/dev/hdc1"
> is a _partition_ on that drive, and you don't use tools like fdisk on
> partitions.
I am confused. In what way is fdisk not for messing with partitions?
# fdisk -l /dev/hdc
Disk /dev/hdc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 61049646 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 1 61049616 244198462 5 Extended
/dev/hdc5 2 500002 2000004 83 Linux
/dev/hdc6 500003 5382816 19531254 83 Linux
/dev/hdc7 5382817 10265630 19531254 83 Linux
/dev/hdc8 10265631 20031256 39062502 83 Linux
/dev/hdc9 20031257 61049616 164073438 83 Linux
From the man...
fdisk - Partition table manipulator for Linux
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