An error message appears after you enter the fdisk command with the absolute path of the disk

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

If you run the fdisk command using the vSphere CLI and provide the absolute path for the disk, for example, fdisk -l /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.600a0b80002a071c0000834248ca0b4f, the following error appears:

last_lba(): I don't know how to handle files with mode 8180

Environment

VMware ESX 4.1.x
VMware ESXi 4.1.x Installable
VMware ESXi 4.0.x Installable
VMware ESX 4.0.x
VMware ESXi 4.1.x Embedded
VMware ESXi 4.0.x Embedded

Resolution

You can ignore this error message or run the same command against the device rather than the absolute path for example:

fdisk -l /dev/sdh

Note: In order to identify the device ID that corresponds to the Absolute Path you can perform the command # esxcfg-scsidevs -m |grep -i <naa id> which would produce an output similar to the following

naa.600a0b80002a071c0000834248ca0b4f:1 /dev/sdh 4c305f5f-41f845ad-9d5e-0050560300e9 0 Test Share