Partition follies

English Hardware
#1

When using yast to configure/modify partitions I get the following error:

"The partitioning on disk /dev/sdb is not readable by
the partitioning tool parted, which is used to change the
partition table. "

“You can use the partitions on disk /dev/sdb as they are.
You can format them and assign mount points to them, but you
cannot add, edit, resize, or remove partitions from that
disk with this tool.”

I have never seen this before…I want to delete the paritions on this disk and start over…but can’t…any ideas?

#2

I would be interested to see:

fdisk -l

You can get that with a live cd from a terminal.

Try Parted Magic as another option…

#3

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000445e2

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 132 1060258+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 133 2743 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2744 12534 78646207+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 12535 38913 211889317+ 83 Linux
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: invalid flag 0xe120 of partition table 5 will be corrected by w(rite)

Disk /dev/sdb: 300.1 GB, 300090728448 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36483 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9a769a76

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 22392 179855707 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 22392 60801 308528294 f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 ? 147195 314435 1343352693 76 Unknown

Disk /dev/sdc: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0004d292

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 9792 78654208+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 9793 10575 6289447+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc3 10576 30401 159252345 83 Linux

#4

I was able to delete the partitions using fdisk but still can’t from yast

…odd

#5

NEW

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000445e2

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 132 1060258+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 133 2743 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2744 12534 78646207+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 12535 38913 211889317+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 300.1 GB, 300090728448 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36483 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9a769a76

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 36483 293049666 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0004d292

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 9792 78654208+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 9793 10575 6289447+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc3 10576 30401 159252345 83 Linux

#6

Did you run the media check of the install media
http://public.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pnxkecbd4U_X1zwnVPqEpUopWifyNN-ejROfff4IWcj13Pl0VFuMn85ry3xlHHks-W1YfoVuVp4ZDDtdoRjo9mA/pic1-media%20check.png?psid=1

I know of no issues with the Yast Partitioner

#7

Anyway, you can partition the disk in Parted Magic and then try an install, assuming it passes the media check.

#8

I was able to get fdisk to clean up the partitions for me…then went back to using Yast…no more problems. Thanks for pointing me towards fdisk.

#9

No problem - Happy to help :wink: