/dev/hdc partitions not showing

[Zane C.B.]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:23:47 -0700
Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 12:24 -0500, Zane C.B. wrote:
> > Any way to tell the kernel to take another look at this device? I
> > partitioned it using fdisk. I can see the partitions if I point
> > something like fdisk at /dev/hdc, but I don't see them if I do
> > a /dev/hdc*.
> 
> fdisk only deals with entire drives (such as /dev/hdc).  "/dev/hdc1"
> is a _partition_ on that drive, and you don't use tools like fdisk on
> partitions.

I am confused. In what way is fdisk not for messing with partitions?

# fdisk -l /dev/hdc

Disk /dev/hdc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 61049646 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1               1    61049616   244198462    5  Extended
/dev/hdc5               2      500002     2000004   83  Linux
/dev/hdc6          500003     5382816    19531254   83  Linux
/dev/hdc7         5382817    10265630    19531254   83  Linux
/dev/hdc8        10265631    20031256    39062502   83  Linux
/dev/hdc9        20031257    61049616   164073438   83  Linux



From the man...
fdisk - Partition table manipulator for Linux
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