Re: partition table not sticky

2012-12-10 Thread J. B
On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 21:23:32 +0900 Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org wrote: [] I bet you used gparted first to create GPT and now trying to use these. This is just a wild guess. (Some fdisk can not handle GPT as I remember) If you wish to make HDD use MBR instead of GPT, you can reset it by

Re: partition table not sticky

2012-12-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 01:06:17PM +0530, J. B wrote: ... I have repeatedly do the same but no luck. no luck with cfdisk. Changes are not stored !!! This part I do not know. only gparted is successful but it makes my 320 GB HDD to 280 GB. 40GB lost !!! This is most likely because of

partition table not sticky

2012-12-06 Thread J. B
Hello, I have tried to partition a new HDD. fidsk reports `` Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x3d9b1a92. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.

Re: partition table not sticky

2012-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
J. B wrote: I have repeatedly do the same but no luck. no luck with cfdisk. Changes are not stored !!! only gparted is successful but it makes my 320 GB HDD to 280 GB. 40GB lost !!! What is the problem with fdisk and cfdisk ??? Can you report the disk information from either smartctl or