#5287 No disk detected in Disk and Network Filesystem and SMART Driver Status

[PaceyIV]

I've just upgrade my systm to Debian 10 and now I can't see any disk in the "Partitions on Local Disks" and "SMART Drive Status".

Here my reports that I have obatained by the Other - Command Shell session

# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WD10JFCX-68N
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: AE37863A-C71F-44CE-A601-4ED799479A82

Device        Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1      2048    1050623    1048576   512M EFI System
/dev/sda2   1050624   62918655   61868032  29.5G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3  62918656 1953521663 1890603008 901.5G Linux filesystem

# cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

   8        0  976762584 sda
   8        1     524288 sda1
   8        2   30934016 sda2
   8        3  945301504 sda3

   # smartctl -i /dev/sda
smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [x86_64-linux-4.19.0-5-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Western Digital Red
Device Model:     WDC WD10JFCX-68N6GN0
Serial Number:    WD-WX91EA41LFMP
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 65b093fd1
Firmware Version: 82.00A82
User Capacity:    1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    5400 rpm
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Thu Jul 18 22:32:18 2019 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

[John Shipp]

I'm having the same problem

[Jamie Cameron]

What does /proc/partitions contain on your system?

[John Shipp]

$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

8 0 39070080 sda
8 1 38021120 sda1
8 2 1 sda2
8 5 1046528 sda5
11 0 1048575 sr0

[Jamie Cameron]

Looks OK .. what if you run :

parted /dev/sda1 unit cyl print

[John Shipp]

/sbin/parted /dev/sda1 unit cyl print

sh: 1: dmidecode: not found
Model: Unknown (unknown)
Disk /dev/sda1: 4733cyl
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
BIOS cylinder,head,sector geometry: 4733,255,63. Each cylinder is 8225kB.
Partition Table: loop
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0cyl 4733cyl 4733cyl ext4

[John Shipp]

so i've noticed that some commands (such as parted), won't work anymore after the upgrade to debian10 unless I type the full path.

/sbin/parted (works)

parted
bash: parted: command not found

This also affects smartclt, halt, shutdown, reboot, fdisk, ifconfig, badblocks, and probably many more. maybe this is related? I tried putting the full path to smartclt in the webmin "smart drive status" module config but that didn't help.

[PaceyIV]

I'm not shure that was the problem.

In my case parted wasn't installed. I've just installed and now Partitions on local disks and SMART driver status work.

[John Shipp]

Installing PARTED fixed mine too!!!