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 -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!