Bug#511679: installation-guide-i386: Provide information on how to restore USB stick to its previous state
Otavio Salvador a écrit : Hello, On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:01 AM, M.-A. DARCHE ma.dar...@cynode.org wrote: parted mklabel your usbstick msdos $ LC_ALL=C sudo parted mklabel /dev/sdb msdos Error: Could not stat device mklabel - No such file or directory. Retry/Cancel? Sorry, my fault. parted /dev/sdb mklabel msdos You can use: parted /dev/sdb mkpart To create a partition on it. After that you'll need to format it later. Here are the operations below: $ sudo parted /dev/sdb mklabel msdos Warning: The existing disk label on /dev/sdb will be destroyed and all data on this disk will be lost. Do you want to continue? parted: invalid token: msdos Yes/No? yes New disk label type? [msdos]? Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab. $ sudo parted /dev/sdb mkpart primary fat32 0 1041 Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab. [I have tried different values for end, and 1041 is the highest that is accepted. Otherwise I get error message such as: Error: The location 1042 is outside of the device /dev/sdb.] $ /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 1040 MB, 1040187392 bytes 118 heads, 55 sectors/track, 313 cylinders Units = cylinders of 6490 * 512 = 3322880 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000810f9 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 314 1015807+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(126, 117, 55) logical=(313, 4, 26) $ mount /media/usb $ df /dev/sdb1 991M 4,0K 991M 1% /media/usb The capacity is still of the original 2Gb :-( Thanks again for your help and giving me this hint on parted. Cheers, -- Marc-Aurèle DARCHE AFUL http://www.aful.org/ Association Francophone des Utilisateurs de Logiciels Libres French speaking Libre Software Users' Association -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#511679: installation-guide-i386: Provide information on how to restore USB stick to its previous state
Hello, On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:01 AM, M.-A. DARCHE ma.dar...@cynode.org wrote: parted mklabel your usbstick msdos $ LC_ALL=C sudo parted mklabel /dev/sdb msdos Error: Could not stat device mklabel - No such file or directory. Retry/Cancel? Sorry, my fault. parted /dev/sdb mklabel msdos You can use: parted /dev/sdb mkpart To create a partition on it. After that you'll need to format it later. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#511679: installation-guide-i386: Provide information on how to restore USB stick to its previous state
Otavio Salvador a écrit : On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 3:29 PM, M.-A. DARCHE ma.dar...@cynode.org wrote: parted behaves very strangely on my Debian Lenny stable. It accepts only to work on mounted partitions. Is that how it should be? No, it should work on devices as well. That seems logical to me that it should behave that way, but it doesn't seem to do so, at least with the stable version (parted 1.8.8.git.2008.03.2) and on my setup :'( What worries me is that you had pasted dd erasing whole device and this would destroy the MBR as well and then it might not be a MBR issue. OK, I thought that somehow the MBR would not be affected by dd operations. If you: dd if=/dev/zero of=your usbstick OK done partprobe $ sudo partprobe $ echo $? 0 parted mklabel your usbstick msdos $ LC_ALL=C sudo parted mklabel /dev/sdb msdos Error: Could not stat device mklabel - No such file or directory. Retry/Cancel? Thanks for your help and time on this -- Marc-Aurèle DARCHE AFUL http://www.aful.org/ Association Francophone des Utilisateurs de Logiciels Libres French speaking Libre Software Users' Association -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#511679: installation-guide-i386: Provide information on how to restore USB stick to its previous state
Otavio Salvador a écrit : Hello, Hello Debian :-) It took me some time to answer because I wanted to do some more tests prior to answering. On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: Did you ever find a procedure that restored the stick to its full capacity? No I did not find any procedure that could restore the stick to its full original capacity. I did some more research and tests (see below) with no success and I lost hope, sticking with my now 1Gb USB stick. So I think the installation guide should at least state: - there are some risks to lose original capacity - do a full image backup to restore the USB-stick afterward ... and that could make this ticket closed since we haven't anything better to propose so far. Of course I'm still interested to read there if someone can provide a solution. Tests done == 1. dd - I have used dd again = still 1.0Gb capacity :-( $ sudo LC_ALL=C dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb dd: writing to `/dev/sdb': No space left on device 2031617+0 records in 2031616+0 records out 1040187392 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 326.42 s, 3.2 MB/s SDFormatter --- The SD Association was mentionned many times on help forums, etc. along with their http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/ It could only run on Windows systems. So I had to get a VM with Windows on it to be able to test it. I did all the possible format operations (quick, full, erase on | off, format size adjustment on | off) with no success. I suspect the solution to be in the MBR somehow ... and I don't know what to modify *inside* the MBR. parted mklabel msdos ought to clear it up (and you'll lose your data) but after creating new partition it ought to continue to work. Does it work for you? parted behaves very strangely on my Debian Lenny stable. It accepts only to work on mounted partitions. Is that how it should be? Cheers, -- Marc-Aurèle DARCHE AFUL http://www.aful.org/ Association Francophone des Utilisateurs de Logiciels Libres French speaking Libre Software Users' Association -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#511679: installation-guide-i386: Provide information on how to restore USB stick to its previous state
Hello, On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 3:29 PM, M.-A. DARCHE ma.dar...@cynode.org wrote: parted behaves very strangely on my Debian Lenny stable. It accepts only to work on mounted partitions. Is that how it should be? No, it should work on devices as well. What worries me is that you had pasted dd erasing whole device and this would destroy the MBR as well and then it might not be a MBR issue. If you: dd if=/dev/zero of=your usbstick partprobe parted mklabel your usbstick msdos It still fails? If yes, please paste the output. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#511679: installation-guide-i386: Provide information on how to restore USB stick to its previous state
Hello, On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: Did you ever find a procedure that restored the stick to its full capacity? parted mklabel msdos ought to clear it up (and you'll lose your data) but after creating new partition it ought to continue to work. Does it work for you? -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#511679: installation-guide-i386: Provide information on how to restore USB stick to its previous state
First of all, sorry for the late reply. On Tuesday 13 January 2009, M.-A. DARCHE wrote: The problem now is that I cannot recover/restore my USB stick to its previous state. Before me installing the Debian installer on it, the USB capacity (size) was 2Gb and now when I open the USB device with either fdisk or cfdisk it only shows a 1Gb capacity. That's why I think that the Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide should feature a small section on Howto restore the USB stick to its previous state. So that people like me are not left with a crippled USB mass storage afterward. I would be happy to add something, but I really have no idea what. Did you ever find a procedure that restored the stick to its full capacity? Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#511679: installation-guide-i386: Provide information on how to restore USB stick to its previous state
Package: installation-guide-i386 Version: Current version http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s03.html Severity: wishlist Hello I have installed Lenny Testing through a USB stick as described in http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s03.html It boots OK as it should etc. The problem now is that I cannot recover/restore my USB stick to its previous state. Before me installing the Debian installer on it, the USB capacity (size) was 2Gb and now when I open the USB device with either fdisk or cfdisk it only shows a 1Gb capacity. That's why I think that the Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide should feature a small section on Howto restore the USB stick to its previous state. So that people like me are not left with a crippled USB mass storage afterward. Best and warm regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
