Re: screwed up a drive (i think)!
On Dec 26, 2013, at 3:17 PM, bruce <badouglas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Here's the output of the fdisk -l
[root@dell-1 ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x28000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 64 512000 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 64 77826 624618496 8e Linux LVM
It is in fact showing a normal MBR with two partitions for device /dev/sda
Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/dm-2 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/dm-3 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/dm-4 doesn't contain a valid partition table
This is a normal message for fdisk of that era because it doesn't ignore the fact
these are device mapper logical block devices, which do not normally ever have partition
tables, you just format them. The /dev/dm-X designation is mapped to
/dev/mapper/VGblah-LVblah. They are one in the same. There's nothing wrong here except
possibly the presentation depending on the age of the tools.
Chris Murphy