Disk /dev/hde doesn't contain a valid partition table {Scanned}

[SW]

Hi Geoff,

Thanks for your reply. I'm confused...;-)  I can write data to the drive
which is the only device on a Promise IDE PCI card. The system I have can
only support SCSI so I added a IDE card to put some cheap IDE drives for
backup purposes.

I ran fdisk /dev/hde and now it tells me:

 fdisk /dev/hde
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF
disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
content won't be recoverable.

Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by
w(rite)

I'm not sure what this means, but if I select the 'w' option, will this
destroy my data on this drive? Also if I try to do the print option in
fdisk, it doesn't show the ext3 partition I created:

Disk /dev/hde: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System

I know I created a partition and before quiting did the 'w' option to write
it which took a while to preform before fdisk existed. Could my problem be
that I ran a program which screwed up my partition table? I ran parted which
told me to run e2fsck due to a problem and then I ran fsck.ext3. Can any of
these programs destroy my partitions?

What should I do now?

Thanks,

SW
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff Rainey (DSL AK)" <GeoffR at datacom.co.nz>
To: "SW" <wppiphoto at wppi.com>; "General Red Hat Linux discussion list"
<redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 12:23 AM
Subject: RE: Disk /dev/hde doesn't contain a valid partition table {Scanned}


Hi,

When you have done it a couple of times, you will be surprised how simple it
really is.
It looks like you have not partitioned your drive. Have you run "fdisk
/dev/hde" and partitioned
your drive up? One then has to create a filesystem on the drive, after it is
partitioned.

Do you know what drive number it is?
hda - primary master
hdb - primary slave
hdc - secondary master
hdd - secondary slave
hde - ?

regards,
Geoff.

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From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of SW
Sent: Tue 7/09/2004 16:14
To: Redhat Support Usergroup
Subject: Disk /dev/hde doesn't contain a valid partition table {Scanned}



Hi,

I'm trying to find out how I can go about making sure my new hard drive
(/dev/hde) is correctly formated and partitioned. This was my 1st time
adding a hard drive in a linux system and I had a pretty hard time setting
it up.

Now, I'm getting the following error when I try to run a backup script to
this hard drive:

Disk /dev/hde doesn't contain a valid partition table

Here is the info for this hard drive:

# e2fsck /dev/hde
e2fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
/dev/hde: clean, 194/24428544 files, 2871129/48840246 blocks

#vi /etc/fstab
/dev/hde                /Backups                ext3    defaults        1 2

Can anyone tell me how to go about troubleshooting this problem?

Thanks,

SW



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