Ubuntu
parted package

  1. Bug #568050
  2. Comment #36

Comment 36 for bug 568050

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote : Re: [Bug 568050] Re: Ubuntu 10.04 can't create partition on fakeraid

On 4/30/2010 1:42 PM, beamin wrote:
> I have the exact same issue that you did. However I am struggling
> to get fdisk to work. Whenever i try to list with fdisk -l, nothing
> shows up. If I try to list with fdisk -l /dev/mapper/(raid1array) it
> says it cannot open it.
>
> Can you shed some light on the specifics of using fdisk for this
> scenario? I have tried using gparted, manually setting up partitions in
> the installer itself, no luck.

You need to use sudo. Also to get gparted to see the array run sudo
gparted /dev/mapper/(raid1array).