Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > thanks for your response. > > Daniel Frey wrote: > > [snip] > >> I can only think of two reasons, the kernel on the livecd doesn't >> support GPT (which is unlikely) > > That would be really strange. However, how can I prove it? > >> or you're booting a 32-bit kernel live >> USB. I am reasonably certain for drives > 2TB a 64-bit kernel and GPT >> are required. > > No, I've always chosen 64-bit kernels. I wonder what is so special about > this partition ...
Currently I wonder, why my system can find the partition at all: ======================== %< ======================== # gdisk -l /dev/sdi GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1 Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: not present Creating new GPT entries. Disk /dev/sdi: 732566646 sectors, 2.7 TiB Logical sector size: 4096 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): 80C04475-9B51-4A44-A52F-1F165AE02695 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 6, last usable sector is 732566640 Partitions will be aligned on 256-sector boundaries Total free space is 732566635 sectors (2.7 TiB) Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name ======================== %< ======================== However, it's mounted successfully, see system logs: ======================== %< ======================== [22735.626752] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdi] 732566646 4096-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.73 TiB) [22735.629255] sdi: sdi1 [23414.066315] EXT4-fs (sdi1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) ======================== %< ======================== Has anyone ever tried the recovery option of GPT disk to rebuild GPT from MBR? - Jörg
