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util-linux package

fdisk -l doesn't list damaged hdd but palimpsest does

Bug #534370 reported by Renard Voß
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Bug Description

My PC contains a damaged hdd from which I'm rescuing data using ddrescue. I'm doing this already for several months. Now that I updated to ubuntu 9.10 I'm having a strange problem:

"fdisk -l" does not show the damaged hdd anymore, while palimpsest does.

Look here:

http://picfront.org/d/7tqP

In the past I always checked if the damaged hdd is sdc by using "fdisk -l" before using my "standard" ddrescue command (and if the hdd wasn't listed, I could be sure that the hdd had not been found by the BIOS).

Now I'm getting the information from palimpsest, but it is strange that "fdisk -l" doesn't show the disk and I think it must be a bug (eventually not a very important bug, but still a bug).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 8 13:18:21 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Package: gnome-terminal 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.27-14.33-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-14-generic x86_64

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Renard Voß (renardvoss) wrote :
Renard Voß (renardvoss)
description: updated
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Gabe Gorelick (gabegorelick) wrote :

By the way, the link to the picture you provided is broken.

affects: ubuntu → util-linux (Ubuntu)
Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)
tags: added: karmic
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Renard Voß (renardvoss) wrote :

I changed the link to the screenshot in the bug description. It should work now. If not, please let me know.

description: updated
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Ralf Doering (rdoering) wrote :

Can you please try an explicite "fdisk -l /dev/sdc". And can you please provide any relevant dmesg output after fdisk -l and fdisk -l /dev/sdc?

Ralf Doering (rdoering)
Changed in util-linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Renard Voß (renardvoss) wrote :

I've done everything you aks me to do and here is the result:

This time my PC recognized the damaged HDD as sdb, while another HDD was sdc.

This picture shows the results of palimpsest of fdisk -l and fdisk -l /dev/sdb:

http://picfront.org/d/7wlN

...and it shows nearly the same result: palimpsest shows sdb and fdisk doesn't display any information about it.

Then I've executed the dmesg command and got (of course) a veeeery long result. Probably to long be displayed completely in the terminal. Everything that was displayed will be attached to this message.

Afterwards I copied the dmesg log from /var/log and I'll attach it here, too (but I've to mention that this log file is already some days old).

OK, thanks and good luck ;)

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Renard Voß (renardvoss) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for util-linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in util-linux (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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