RHEL4.2 redhat fdisk -l shows no output

[Raj Patel_1]

Hi there, i'm having trouble getting any output from fdisk -l. anyone got any ideas ?

/proc/partitions file exists also

details below :

fdisk version : fdisk v2.12a

[root@freddy ~]# uname -a
Linux freddy 2.6.9-11.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri May 20 18:26:27 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[root@freddy~]# cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

104 0 71126640 cciss/c0d0
104 1 1534176 cciss/c0d0p1
104 2 13309852 cciss/c0d0p2
104 3 49496265 cciss/c0d0p3
104 4 1 cciss/c0d0p4
104 5 2618563 cciss/c0d0p5
104 6 2618563 cciss/c0d0p6
104 7 1534176 cciss/c0d0p7
104 16 71126640 cciss/c0d1
104 17 35840983 cciss/c0d1p1

we have other identical servers with same OS version and same fdisk ver, which work fine.

any help appreciated

[Ivan Ferreira]

What is the problem with fdisk? Have you tried parted? Sometimes, if the partition type is GPT, fdisk is unable to read the partition.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Does sfdisk -l show correct?

SEP

[Raj Patel_1]

Hi ivan and Steven,

sfdisk -l and parted do work, however the information i'm trying to retrive is the Disk capacity, which in my script does fdisk -l |grep Disk, see below:

[root@scooby~]# fdisk -l |grep Disk
Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 72.8 GB, 72833679360 bytes
Disk /dev/cciss/c0d1: 145.6 GB, 145667358720 bytes

Is there any other way to retrieve the Hard Disk capacities ?

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

We've shown you the best way.

Other suggestions:
1) Makes sure the bios on the system is up to date.
2) upd2date the system to update 4 or update 5, this looks like an fdisk bug.

SEP

[Stin]

I have a similar problem.
I get no output from fdisk -l

However, if I do:

# fdisk /dev/ida/c0d0

Then 'm' for help (just to be sure)
Then 'p' for print, the output is exactly as I would expect to see from fdisk -l
Then I think it's 'q' to quit without saving changes.

I hope it helps as a workaround but take care using fdisk. Particularly if it is in a production environment.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,


whereis fdisk
rpm -ql # to get the parent rpm
rpm -qa | grep fdisk #get the rpm name

rpm -qf fdisk-

See the files and sizes and compare them to a working system