Re: 2.4.11 loses sda9

Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolabs.com)
Thu, 11 Oct 2001 00:08:14 -0600


On Oct 11, 2001 00:45 -0500, arvest@orphansonfire.com wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 arvest@orphansonfire.com wrote:
> > > I can get the system booted enough to work on (and totaly up) with this
> > > partition failing. I dont know what more information from fdisk I can
> > > give you, sda9 is there with .10, and gone with .11 It even allowed me
> > > to add a new partition (i didnt save) I tried sfdisk but it gave me
> > > these errors.
>
> Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> SCSI device sda: 17783250 512-byte hdwr sectors (9105 MB)
> sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 >
> omitting empty partition (9)
>
> /dev/sda1 * 1 501 513008 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 502 3698 3273728 83 Linux
> /dev/sda3 3699 4199 513024 83 Linux
> /dev/sda4 4200 8683 4591616 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 4200 4700 513008 83 Linux
> /dev/sda6 4701 5725 1049584 83 Linux
> /dev/sda7 5726 5918 197616 82 Linux swap
> /dev/sda8 5919 6419 513008 83 Linux

You probably need to go into fdisk and change the partition type of
sda9 from "0" to "83" (or any other non-zero type). There is a
reason that it is saying "omitting empty partition (9)" at boot,
and "fdisk -l" doesn't list it - because type "0" means "I don't exist".

In fdisk, use the "t" option to set the type of sda9.

Cheers, Andreas

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