Why does the "fdisk -l" command complain about "Disk /dev/mdN doesn't contain a valid partition table" for software RAID devices?
Issue
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Why does the "fdisk -l" command complains about "Disk /dev/mdN doesn't contain a valid partition table" for software RAID devices?
[root@HOSTNAME ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 14 19457 156183930 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb2 14 19457 156183930 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/md1: 159.9 GB, 159932219392 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 39045952 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/md0: 106 MB, 106823680 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 26080 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
mdraiddevices
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