Re: partition table not sticky

2012-12-10 Thread J. B
On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 21:23:32 +0900 Osamu Aoki wrote: [] > > I bet you used gparted first to create GPT and now trying to use these. > This is just a wild guess. (Some fdisk can not handle GPT as I > remember) > > If you wish to make HDD use MBR instead of GPT, you can reset it by > somethin

Re: partition table not sticky

2012-12-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 01:06:17PM +0530, J. B wrote: ... > I have repeatedly do the same but no luck. no luck with cfdisk. Changes are > not stored !!! This part I do not know. > only gparted is successful but it makes my 320 GB HDD to 280 GB. 40GB lost !!! This is most likely because of

Re: partition table not sticky

2012-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
J. B wrote: > I have repeatedly do the same but no luck. no luck with > cfdisk. Changes are not stored !!! > > only gparted is successful but it makes my 320 GB HDD to 280 > GB. 40GB lost !!! > > What is the problem with fdisk and cfdisk ??? Can you report the disk information from either smartc

partition table not sticky

2012-12-06 Thread J. B
Hello, I have tried to partition a new HDD. fidsk reports `` Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x3d9b1a92. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. Afte