<div dir="ltr">Looks like I shouldn't have added the <span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"> GUID partition table (</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(95,99,104);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">GPT</span><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">) using parted. Managed to delete it and it's rebuilding the raid array now without a partition (if I create a primary partition the disk is too small).</span><div><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">As you can see, I'm blundering about in the dark here as I can't remember what I did 8 years ago when I built this system</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 10:37 AM Robin Gilks <<a href="mailto:gb7ipd@gmail.com">gb7ipd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'm replacing a failed disk in my raid array but I can't get it to show the partition data the same as the other 2 disks.<div>SDA and SDD are the OK drives and they display (under both parted and fdisk) a primary partition with no filesystem. The new one is SDC</div><div>If I try to create a primary partition on SDC both apps create a filesystem (fdisk type 83, parted ext2 - didn't check type).</div><div><br></div><div>Anyone know the magic sauce?</div><div><br><div><br>Model: ATA ST3000DM001-1ER1 (scsi)<br>Disk /dev/sda: 3001GB<br>Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B<br>Partition Table: gpt<br>Disk Flags:<br><br><br>Number Start End Size File system Name Flags<br></div><div> 1 1049kB 3001GB 3001GB primary<br><br><br>Model: ATA ST3000DM008-2DM1 (scsi)<br>Disk /dev/sdc: 3001GB<br>Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B<br>Partition Table: gpt<br>Disk Flags: <br><br>Number Start End Size File system Name Flags<br><br><br>Model: ATA ST3000DM001-1ER1 (scsi)<br>Disk /dev/sdd: 3001GB<br>Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B<br>Partition Table: gpt<br>Disk Flags: <br><br>Number Start End Size File system Name Flags<br> 1 1049kB 3001GB 3001GB primary<br><br><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Robin Gilks<div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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