On 9/25/07, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec at pomec.net> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you