On 9/25/07, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> I recently added a 300gig Seagate sata drive on a Centos 5.0 and have a
> couple of questions.
>
> The drive was recognized with the device as /dev/sdc. The system came
> with some SCCI drives that are labeled as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. I was
> surprised that the sata drives used sdc. Are the sata drives considered
> more like SCCI or IDE drives?
Yes ATA drive look more like SCSI than old IDE
>
> The real problem occurred when I tried to partition the drive with
> parted. I used he command mkpart to form one partition of 300 gigs
> which created /dev/sdc1, and then after 'quiting' parted used mkfs.ext3
> to create a file system. Everything went as expected with the ability to
> mount the file system and copy files into it. However, /dev/sdc1
> disappeared when I rebooted. After the reboot /dev/sdc1 was missing and
> CentOs obviously could not recognize the partition. The error is
> probably related to my lack of experience with parted so I tried it 2
> other times with the same results.
>
> I finally gave up and used fdisk which has worked without a problem.
>
> By way of observation I could not find a 'write to disk' command in
> parted like what is present in fdisk. Is there a problem with parted or
> I am just lacking in knowledge of some of the parted commands.
> Certainly could not find any write like statements in the man pages or
> the info pages.
>
> Are there others of you that use parted? What did I do wrong?
I dont see anything wrong.
maybe sync will help the OS to write the new partition on the disk.
# sync
also You could use partprob to reread partition from disk and verify
chnages are flushed on disk.
Regards
>
> Greg Ennis
>
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