On Monday 16 March 2009 20:21:40 Jon Grant wrote: > Hi, I've noticed on several desktops and laptops that fdisk fails to > re-read the partition table. Is anyone looking into this? I've seen it > over the last 2 years, latest version I have seen it in is v2.14 on an > Ubuntu live disc, 8.04. Makes it a big of a pain, as I'd like to > partition and install as the same step. None of hte drives are in use, > and none are mounted or being accessed by anything else, its a > straight booted Ubuntu live disc, and then the drives are plugged in, > and unmounted so I can modify them. ... > root@ubuntu:/dev# fdisk sdb ... > WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 5: Input/output That seems to indicate a hardware problem on the disk - have a look at the output of dmesg (Write-Once-Read-Never?). I don't think that the underlying cause of the IO error (e.g. disk seek timeout) can be reported by fdisk. &:-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
