On Wednesday 24 January 2001 04:48, you wrote:
> Ok...
>
> First of all, in order for me to use Partition Magic, which I have on my
> windows side and hardly ever use. I'd rather use Linux...anyway, PM won't
> do anything with ReiserFS. Thus, in order to use PM I would have to wipe
> the drive, start over and make the file system ext2 in order to be able to
> use PM. I really don't want to do that. I've spent a lot of time setting
> this machine up.
>
> Another real good reason for not using PM is because I've left the windows
> world behind because I just plain got sick and tired or using a GUI for
> anything and everything. All that was doing was letting something else do
> the real work for me and I was learning "how" to fix a problem cause I had
> no idea what the program was doing while it was fixing something. Ergo,
> one of the biggest reasons I became a full time Linux user. And I happen
> to like diskdrake. It's a very powerful tool and used properly can do just
> as good a job as PM. And it's free! Not to mention I save the Window
> parition with it the other night. Not that I need or windows, but there is
> still a great deal of data still being stored on that system.
>
> If I'm going to "fix" this problem then I want to know why it's happening
> and how to deal with it without allowing a GUI to do the thinking and work
> for me. I like being the one making the decisions whether for good or for
> bad. I like choices. Therefore, I really need to know whats going on here
> and just how to go about fixing it.
>
> O yeah...and one more thing. Even when I did have the ext2 FS in the
> drive PM would bail on me each and every time without fail when I would
> start it and it only behaves this way when the Linux partitions are
> overlapped. It ain't a doin me much good that-a way. Seems the program
> only works for me when there "isn't" a problem on the drive that it was
> designed to handle. Darn! can't use it again...
>
> On the other hand...diskdrake doesn't complain, nor crash, nor bail with
> an init error that is so non descript that it's error means next to
> nothing usable at all to the user. Bah...hum bug! I don't often spend this
> much time bashing and bitching about Windows stuff cause this just ain't
> the place for it. And neither is falling back to a real dumb program
> "hoping" that it's doing the job correctly and fixing the real problem.
>
> All that being said...as I stated before PM is not the answer for this
> situation.
>
> Mark
>
Ok, if you are done with the rant, how 'bout some data?
Use what I suggested or use /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hdx where x is the drive
letter, but let's see what you are discussing.
Civileme
<confers on Ron the "PM Salesman of the Weak" award j/k of course ;-}>
