I had a 70gig partition running Ubuntu that I deleted from Disk utility (was gonna reinstall with Kubuntu instead). However, once the operation was complete, I was just left with the Mac partition (~170 gig out of 256) and the formatted Linux partition was not visible. I tried to repair it from recovery mode, but it keeps telling me to open first aid in recovery mode (which I am).
Parition disapeared after deleting Linux
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The simple solution is to reformat the whole disk and reinstall Mavericks from scratch. Doing so will get your Mavericks recovery partition back and you can migrate your data back from time machine. I get the feeling you don't want to do that however?
Wasn't exactly feeling like modifying the GPT table via the terminal with all my data on the disk, so I just completely erase the disk after backing up my data and reinstall OS X booting on a USB stick with Mavericks on it :
Everything is back to normal :)
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If I'm understanding you correctly, you are trying to format a linux partition from your OS X diskutil app. Far better would be to access it via an external linux boot device, either USB or DVD. Since what you do to that partition as far as a reinstall of linux should (fingers crossed) only mess with the linux partition, your ability to later on reboot into OS X should be (fingers crossed) fine. As I am finding out myself, deleting partitions within one or the other systems may well befoul everything. But reinstalling to one of them should have less risk involved. BACKING UP the OS X partition first would be a stellar idea.
I say this as someone running a MacBook late-2011 15" with Mint Linux as first partition and MacOS as second.