[parted-devel] Diagnosing a "loop" partition

[xerces8]

David Liontooth wrote:

> On an Areca controller, in JBOD mode, I used cfdisk to create a single 
> partition, and mksf.xfs for the file system.
> 
> On reboot, Linux 2.6.27.9 reports "unknown partition table", while 
> parted identifies the partition table type as "loop":

cfdisk is horribly broken*. Use another tool to create a partition
table and partitions on it. fdisk, parted, etc...

* - at least it was last time I checked years ago

Regards,
David