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by **avia..** » Fri, 09 Feb 2001 06:37:36

I just installed a Western Digital 40GB 7200rpm ata100 hard drive in my
server. needless to say I'm having alot of fun. or I was until I
tryed to run fdisk...

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Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or
OSF disklab
el
Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
content won't be recoverable.

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

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Now, fdisk works on my first hard drive a 6.4G Western Digital. If
anyone can tell me what I did wrong or what's going wrong? This is a
linux only system and the drive is fresh from the box (never formated
before) The system specs are as follows...

P200MMX w/128MB ram
hda 6.4G Western digital
hdb 40G Western digital
hdc 24x cd-rom
hdd 8x cd-rom
Linux Mandrake 7.1

thanks,
Rob

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by **Tim Moor** » Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:37:23

> Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or
> OSF disklab
> el
> Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
> until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
> content won't be recoverable.

> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

try cfdisk or sfdisk

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by **Henrik Carlqvis** » Sat, 10 Feb 2001 03:40:41

> Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or
> OSF disklabel
> Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
> until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
> content won't be recoverable.

> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I've heard about someone else with the same problem. His solution was to
run gparted which was able to write a DOS partition disklabel. Then he
was able to use fdisk to create partitions.

This is probably a bug in fdisk which seems to be unable to create new
partition tables on big disks.

regards Henrik
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