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

2010-02-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Is this some sort of LVM thing creeping in? I don't use it but I see signs of it starting to show up on my systems like something is making it come in with new profiles or something. Some lvm tools/packages have replaced

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

2010-02-08 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Montag 08 Februar 2010 01:27:59 schrieb Peter Humphrey: Hello again List, $ sudo fdisk -l Unable to seek on /dev/sda What am I to make of this? The system runs ok, but apparently the underlying disk subsystem isn't happy. This box has only the one disk at the moment. Google doesn't

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

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Monday 08 February 2010 01:27:33 Mark Knecht wrote: sorry to have forgotten is but simply do df and see what it says is mounted $ df Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs            

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

2010-02-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Alexander Puchmayr alexander.puchm...@linznet.at wrote: 3) A long time ago, there was a bios option for bootsector-protection, I've never tried this, and I also don't have any idea whether linux sees that in any way. If there is such an option, disable it.

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

2010-02-08 Thread Stroller
When is a disk not a disk? According to Dell: when you source it from a 3rd-party. http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2010-February/041274.html http://tinyurl.com/yer7n9o Stroller.

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

2010-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 08 February 2010 15:02:51 Mark Knecht wrote: Did you intend to have 3 100MB partitions at the start of your drive and then everything else inside of an extended partition? It's not wrong - it was just unexpected for me. I did, but I think I'll revert to just a single boot partition.

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

2010-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 07:02:51 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Is this some sort of LVM thing creeping in? I don't use it but I see signs of it starting to show up on my systems like something is making it come in with new profiles or something. I don't know how LVM works but I assume that rootfs

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

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Hello again List, $ sudo  fdisk -l Unable to seek on /dev/sda What am I to make of this? The system runs ok, but apparently the underlying disk subsystem isn't happy. This box has only the one disk at the

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

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Hello again List, $ sudo  fdisk -l Unable to seek on /dev/sda What am I to make of this? The system runs ok, but apparently the

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

2010-02-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 08 February 2010 00:46:33 Mark Knecht wrote: What's in dmesg when the machine boots? See attachment. Is it possible an older driver got loaded and it's showing up as hda instead of sda? I found that on one of my machines recently. I hope not. This is a new installation on a new

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

2010-02-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 08 February 2010 01:27:33 Mark Knecht wrote: sorry to have forgotten is but simply do df and see what it says is mounted $ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 60G 25G 32G 44% / /dev/root 60G 25G 32G 44% /