On Monday 28 June 2004 09:49 am, Eric House wrote: > I then tried to repartition the disk using 'fdisk /dev/nftla'. All > was well until I tried to commit my changes, at which point the app > printed 'Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table' and then did > nothing: no exit, no response to keys (including ctrl-d and ctrl-c). > On rebooting, I found that my changes appeared to have been saved, and > so ran fdisk again, changed the partition type to 83, and committed > successfully. But when I changed it back to fat12 and attempted to > commit the same thing happened: fdisk won't exit.
<snip> > I'd guess that there's something wrong with fat12 support in the > hdsupp package. Any ideas or suggestions? I experienced new weirdness with my DiskOnChip system last night, too, while tweaking my Shorewall and DNSmasq configurations. _Sometimes_ I could backup the changes to the DoC, and _sometimes_ the backup process would hang. The same symptoms occured when manually unmounting the DoC after manually mounting it: sometimes it would unmount properly, and sometimes it would just hang. I cycled power several times, and tried to determine any consistency in the problem. It _felt_ like "quickly" doing things with the DoC was the problem (ie: copy an LRP package to the DoC and then immediately unmount the partition, or use lrcfg to backup several packages in quick succession), but I don't think that's correct because _sometimes_ I was able to quickly commit several backups in a row; and _sometimes_ I was able to copy an LRP to the DoC and then immediately unmount it. When rebooting, I did notice that the DoC partition sometimes reported "empty" sectors which were formatted, or "incorrect" sectors which were skipped. These were (almost?) always after rebooting due to a failed unmount operation after a write operation to the DoC. I'll be happy to troubleshoot this, if someone can give me some suggestions on what to try. Thanks! Scott ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
