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Hi,

There was some problem with our system so I re-installed the server with CentOS 7. Now, when I am trying to run ‘fdisk -l’ command, it is returning a broken output.

It throws this error- “fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdc: Input/output error”.

There are valid /dev/sdd and /dev/sde devices which are mounted and they are accessible but, somehow /dev/sdc is having a problem and ‘fdisk -l’ is not returning the full output.

Below is an output of fdisk -l for reference. Any suggestion on how to fix this would be very helpful.

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7 thoughts on - Broken Output For Fdisk -l

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    Sounds like a bad drive. I would start by looking for errors in
    /var/log/messages and dmesg.

    You could check the connection cable if anyone has had the machine open.

    –rSB1WmiiKf3jmLDn3qqmgh6xV4v8IrmDf

  • So, your server had an undiagnosed problem, and now it reports read errors on /dev/sdc? Do you think those two things might be related?

  • There were no live connections.

    The problem what we had was more related to OS requirement for some software. This drive was not in a bad shape.

  • I tried to run fsck on /dev/sdc drive and here what I got.

    [root@localhost ~]# fsck /dev/sdc fsck from util-linux 2.23.2
    e2fsck 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013)
    fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/sdc Could this be a zero-length partition?
    [root@localhost ~]# fsck /dev/sdc1
    fsck from util-linux 2.23.2
    e2fsck 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013)
    fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sdc1
    Possibly non-existent device?

  • What’s in your /var/log/dmesg? (search for sdc and the nearby lines)


    Marcelo

    “¿No será acaso que esta vida moderna está teniendo más de moderna que de vida?” (Mafalda)

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    Hi,

    what does lsblk say?

    //Zdenek

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