Re: partition weirdness

[Andries Brouwer]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 06:07:52PM -0600, Aaron Dewell wrote:

> The problem is this:  the partition table is recognized, but the individual
> partitions (the ones I care about) are zero, that is to say, they contain the
> right size of zeros.  The disk device itself, at the partition table boundaries,
> is not zero, and I can't explain this discrepency.  On the disk, there seem to be
> correct and valid superblocks at the right places, they just don't exist in the
> partition devices.

Does the kernel have support for sun partition tables built in?
What are the kernel boot messages about the disk?
What does /proc/partitions say?
What does fdisk -l say?

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