On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 09:12 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: > on 9/24/2007 3:42 PM Gregory P. Ennis spake the following: > > 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? > > > > 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? > > > > Greg Ennis > Do you remember what command you used to create the partition? > Should be something like mkpart primary ext2 after entering parted in interactive mode I gave the command "mkpart" this was followed other questions : (parted) mkpart Partition type? primary/extended? primary File system type? [ext2]? Start? 0 End? 300G When this is done /dev/sdc1 was created; it was mountable; and I could copy files to it. However when I rebooted /dev/sdc1 was absent and of course nothing was mountable. Greg