Harpz Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Hi Came across this in my log and wondering if i did something wrong when pre-clearing and installing my new 3TB parity drive? Feb 10 06:27:59 Pluto unmenu[1132]: WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted Should i be worried, Is my array safe and protected? Using unRAID Version: 5.0-rc8a Quote Link to comment
mbryanr Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Was this drive in any other system prior to installation? Follow Limetech's instruction and assessment here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=13371.msg127457#msg127457 EDIT: I should add, when unRaid writes a MBR partition table, it does not touch the sectors between the MBR and the start of partition 1 - it leaves them as-is, so if sometime in the past a GPT was written to the disk, that GPT header will still exist in sector 1. Ditto when writing a GPT - the sectors between the end of the GPT partition table and the start of partition 1 are not written. EDIT 2: To add to what I added - even if there is a remnant GPT header in sector 1, but the MBR is "valid", then the rest of linux OS does the right thing: interprets the MBR partition table. In order for linux to interpret a GPT, the MBR must be in the format of a so-called "protective MBR" as documented in the wikipedia article. Edit: Looks like nothing to worry about: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=14158.msg134828#msg134828 http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=19275.msg171839#msg171839 Edit2: I probably wouldn't do this for a harmless error message, but it does describe why it occurs.. http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/wipegpt.html Quote Link to comment
lionelhutz Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 The short answer is that 3T drives use GPT so of course a GPT partition will be detected. Nothing to worry about. Quote Link to comment
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