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/dev/sda1 not a subset of /dev/sda?

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Mar 15, 20264114 views
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the first entry of my partition table is: (-Cv describe the output format, -n 16 asks for 16 bytes and -s 446 skips the first 446 bytes) You can see that my first partition is a primary Linux partition and that this partition begin at sector 63 (see for example [here][1] for the structure of the pa…

Error Output

$ sudo hexdump -Cv -n 16 -s 446 /dev/sda
000001be  80 01 01 00 83 fe ff ff  3f 00 00 00 81 1c 20 03  |........?..... .|

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Nice finding, as I was able to reproduce this effect on my system, too. At my site it happens on /dev/hda, so it is no SCSI issue. I think is right that it is a cache issue. Here is my interpretation what happened on your site (note that I am not su…

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