On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:44 AM, David Goodenough <david.goodeno...@btconnect.com> wrote: > I have a hard drive with a primary partition and an extended partiton. > QTParted says that it has /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda5 which is > what one would expect, but when I boot the disk the kernel reports > that there are only the /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 partitons, no /dev/hda5. > > The really odd thing is that qtparted is running on the kernel which > can not see /dev/hda5. > > The disk is question is a 2.5" 160GB drive, and is quite new. The kernel > log shows no errors. > > Any idea what might cause this and how to fix it (preferably without > repartitioning the disk as backing it all up would take a while and also > I do not know how I would access the data in /dev/hda5 if I can not see > it). > > David >
What version of Debian is this? What kernel version? Storage controller type? I find it odd that your disks would be named hdx as modern libata should emulate those drives as scsi. -- Jordan Metzmeier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50e5edd51003040754t3c6bdc4ai10feb575e7f66...@mail.gmail.com
