Hey Guys,
I need some quick help. I was creating a partition for one of the disks to setup RAC with fdisk and in error i wrote to the partition "w option" without actually creating the partition and now the disk just wont show up in fdisk, can anyone please help rectify this.
this is what i did
sample01:~ # fdisk /dev/sdb
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x4a2ae912.
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)
WARNING: The size of this disk is 2.2 TB (2199023255552 bytes).
DOS partition table format can not be used on drives for volumes
larger than (2199023255040 bytes) for 512-byte sectors. Use parted(1) and GUID
partition table format (GPT).
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 2199.0 GB, 2199023255552 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 267349 cylinders, total 4294967296 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4a2ae912
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
Command (m for help): u
Changing display/entry units to cylinders (DEPRECATED!)
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
sample01:~ # fdisk /dev/sdb
fdisk: unable to open /dev/sdb: No such file or directory
sample01:~ #
sample01:~ #
Can anyone please help rectify this.
Thanks,