On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 06:58:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 09:57 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 11:11:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 23:39 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > Writing to NTFS partitions is fraught with risk. If you need to > > > share data with MSFT systems, reformat the disk as FAT32. > > > > > > > Solution: > > connect it, start parted > > > > $ parted /dev/sde > > > > remove all partitions, make a new label; make new partitions with new > > Who cares about the disk label???? >
¿? > > file systems (I chose ext2, one small fat32) > > > > commands: rm ; mklabel; mkpartfs > > mkpartfs? > > What's that? Such a program isn't in (unstable) Debian. > ¿? http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_chapter/parted_2.html#SEC19 and parted is included in debian > > To verify, print to the screen, then quit > > > > commands: print; quit > > > > Remark: cfdisk failed miserably, may be because didn't change the label > > of the disk and udev was reading from it and mounting it NTFS, > > whatever reason, after using cfdisk NTFS still remained. (¿?) > > Exact commands and error messages are always tres' useful when > someone is helping with remote diagnostics. > What do you mean? The commands are exact, and I was reporting how the solution was found, not (at this point) looking for remote diagnostics. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]