On Tuesday 20 August 2002 03:12, Pixel wrote: > Brent Hasty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is observed with MDK 9.0 B2 > > I have a USB External Hard Drive Enclosure with 80 Gig IBM Drive. When I > > try to use diskdrake to set up my partitions on this removable archive > > volume, it all looks good untill I reboot then the partitions are broke, > > and diskdrake shows they have never been formatted. I had formated and > > moved data on and back off before the reboot. > > This seems to be a repeatable error > > I have one partition of 70 GB using a fat32 filesystem. > > It will also not let me chown, or chmod the directory so that any user on > > the system can add folders and files to the partition. > > I can't help you with such information. I don't see what that could > be. You have to find out more on your own
A little more information. So this external usb drive is recognized as /dev/sdb on this system. When I go into disk drake I toggle to expert mode and select my 76GB partition, then select type, then select fat 32, then select format, at which point I get an Error --- dos formatting of sdb5 failed. Can fat 32 handle a single partition as large as 76GB? Is there a smaller size I need to break this partition down into? I am also having another minor problem in that when I try to specify the mount point DiskDrake will not let me type my mount point in. It only allows me to select from a predefined list of mount points. Is there a way to start diskdrake so it will allow you to manually enter in a mount point? -- "The place of the material world in the universe is that of an exquisitely beautiful precipitate or varied cloud-work in the universal �ther, determined by a geometrical necessity...." ~ Professor John G. Macvicar1870 ~ Brent Hasty http://www.Hasty-Solutions.com
