Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 08 February 2010 02:11:01 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: and what happens if you don't use crap - aka sudo but do it the right way - aka su to root? Exactly the same, of course. -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 08 February 2010 02:25:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: a) cfdisk might work while fdisk does not. I get the same from cfdisk: FATAL ERROR: Cannot seek on disk drive b) You have a corrupted partition table that you can try to repair with the testdisk tool Good idea. I'll have a go at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 04:25:17AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You said that Google didn't help, but still, I've found some info about it. In short, I've found two things: a) cfdisk might work while fdisk does not. Interesting. My personal experience has been the opposite: cfdisk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 08 February 2010 02:25:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: b) You have a corrupted partition table that you can try to repair with the testdisk tool (after you make a full backup of your disk.) That seems to have been it. Testdisk did indeed write a new partition table, minus one of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 08 February 2010 00:39:50 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Not sure what's going on, but you might want to post more info so that others might have an idea about what's wrong. First, clean dmesg: sudo dmesg -c /dev/null OK. Then try fdisk again: /sbin/fdisk -l $ sudo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?

2010-02-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
and what happens if you don't use crap - aka sudo but do it the right way - aka su to root?