On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 08:52:54AM -0700, Kevin Musick wrote:
> I can't seem to get FDISK nor DF to work properly. DF always produces the
> error "cannot read table of mounted file systems"
You must use df with a path like "df /" or "df /mnt".
There is no central authority for mounted filesystems on the Hurd
(because everything is implemented as filesystems).
> and FDISK spews many error
> messages. The only device name that seems to work with FDISK is the name of
> my extended partition, hd0s2. However, it lists that partition as having a
> logical Linux swap partition (which is correct) and then another extended
> partition (obviously incorrect).
There is no way to get the disk geometry from GNU Mach.
> I originally installed via the large tarball and have updated using the
> hurd-20000301.tar.gz posting. (I cannot use the Debian package system,
> because dpkg seems to develop circular dependencies between packages.)
Please report details.
Note that hurd-20000301 has screwed group owners. I try to upload a new one
asap. You can try to manualy look for files with group 1000 and chgrp then
to 0 (with find).
Thanks,
Marcus
