From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010622 Description of problem: Existing partitions for /dev/hdb and /dev/hdc are read correctly by fdisk, but the new fangled disk druid (in GUI or text mode) reads partition table from outer space. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Select DiskDruid as partition method, either GUI or text mode. 2. 3. Actual Results: DiskDruid sees: /dev/hdb1 1 1 0M None /dev/hdb2 1 1 0M None /dev/hdb3 1 1 0M None /dev/hdb4 1 1 0M None /dev/hdb5 1 128 1000M None /dev/hdb6 128 256 1000M None /dev/hdb7 256 784 4149M None Free space 784 784 0M Free space /dev/hdc1 1 1 0 None /dev/hdc2 1 1 0 None /dev/hdc3 1 1 0 None /dev/hdc4 1 1 0 None /dev/hdc5 1 2047 1006 None /dev/hdc6 2047 2345 146 None /dev/hdc7 2345 3535 585 None /dev/hdc8 3535 4155 305 None /dev/hdc9 4155 4354 97 None /dev/hdc10 4354 6139 878 None /dev/hdc11 6139 8184 1006 None Free space 8184 8184 0 Free space Expected Results: fdisk sees: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 784 6297448+ fd Linux raid autodetect Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 1 8184 4124704+ fd Linux raid autodetect Additional info:
I *think* this is fixed for beta2. Please retest with beta2.
This defect considered MUST-FIX for Fairfax gold-release.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 46908 ***