Why does 'parted' print that the disk has an unrecognised disk label?

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Issue

  • Why does 'parted' print that the disk has an unrecognised disk label?

  • From the output of 'parted':

    Error: Unable to open /dev/sdb - unrecognised disk label.

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

  • From the output of 'fdisk':

    Disk /dev/sdb: 32.2 GB, 32212254720 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3916 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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