Partition exists but is inaccessible from system

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Issue

  • The /dev/sda1 partition is not accessible. The partition exists according to multiple tools such as fdisk and sfdisk and is also reported by the kernel at boot time:
fdisk -luS /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 17840 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot    Start       End   #sectors  Id  System
/dev/sda1   *      2048   1026047    1024000  83  Linux
/dev/sda2       1026048 286611455  285585408  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/sda3             0         -          0   0  Empty
/dev/sda4             0         -          0   0  Empty

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 U2

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