Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-12-03 Thread berenger . morel
Le 02.12.2014 19:27, tv.deb...@googlemail.com a écrit : On 02/12/2014 20:48, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [cut] Also, what is EBR (or EPBR, which seems to be some sort of enhanced whatever may be a EBR)? Extended Boot Record on DOS disks ? Where information about extended partition

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-12-02 Thread berenger . morel
Le 20.11.2014 22:26, Scott Ferguson a écrit : On 21/11/14 06:45, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Scott Ferguson a écrit : Might be worth fscking the disk first in case that's where the problem lies. Why ? fsck works on filesystems, not disks or partition tables. Good question - because I didn't

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-12-02 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 02/12/2014 20:48, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [cut] Also, what is EBR (or EPBR, which seems to be some sort of enhanced whatever may be a EBR)? Extended Boot Record on DOS disks ? Where information about extended partition is stored.

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-20 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:56:51 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org a écrit : Now, fact is that the hard-disk partition table is no longer correct, and when I plug it (it is an USB HD) into a Debian system, it makes udev eating all my memory, and more. Could you please open a bugreport against

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Scott Ferguson a écrit : On 20/11/14 12:45, Martin Read wrote: On 20/11/14 01:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 20/11/14 04:06, Morel Bérenger wrote: I think it's msdos. AFAIK mdos partition tables don't support anywhere near that number of slices. :( MS-DOS partition tables support any number

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-20 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/11/14 20:13, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Scott Ferguson a écrit : On 20/11/14 12:45, Martin Read wrote: On 20/11/14 01:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 20/11/14 04:06, Morel Bérenger wrote: I think it's msdos. AFAIK mdos partition tables don't support anywhere near that number of slices. :(

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Scott Ferguson a écrit : Might be worth fscking the disk first in case that's where the problem lies. Why ? fsck works on filesystems, not disks or partition tables. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-20 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 21/11/14 06:45, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Scott Ferguson a écrit : Might be worth fscking the disk first in case that's where the problem lies. Why ? fsck works on filesystems, not disks or partition tables. Good question - because I didn't spend much time thinking about it, or, because I

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-19 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Lun 17 novembre 2014 19:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: So, what part of that disk should I extract, which could be usable and sharable? Partition table, of course, which is probably at disk's beginning, but how long might

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/11/14 04:06, Morel Bérenger wrote: Le Lun 17 novembre 2014 19:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: So, what part of that disk should I extract, which could be usable and sharable? Partition table, of course, which is

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-19 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mer 19 novembre 2014 21:16, Scott Ferguson a écrit : On 20/11/14 04:06, Morel Bérenger wrote: Le Lun 17 novembre 2014 19:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: So, what part of that disk should I extract, which could be

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/11/14 11:14, Morel Bérenger wrote: Le Mer 19 novembre 2014 21:16, Scott Ferguson a écrit : On 20/11/14 04:06, Morel Bérenger wrote: Le Lun 17 novembre 2014 19:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: So, what part of that

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-19 Thread Martin Read
On 20/11/14 01:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 20/11/14 04:06, Morel Bérenger wrote: I think it's msdos. AFAIK mdos partition tables don't support anywhere near that number of slices. :( MSDOS extended partitions contain a linked list of logical partitions. It looks, from the pattern of

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/11/14 12:45, Martin Read wrote: On 20/11/14 01:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 20/11/14 04:06, Morel Bérenger wrote: I think it's msdos. AFAIK mdos partition tables don't support anywhere near that number of slices. :( MSDOS extended partitions contain a linked list of logical

udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-17 Thread berenger . morel
Hello. I think most of my problem's description is in title, but here are some more informations. I have a hard disk on which I tried a... quite unusual... procedure to install another OS. My try in this procedure [1] did not went well at all, but it's not the subject of this mail. Now,

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Now, fact is that the hard-disk partition table is no longer correct, and when I plug it (it is an USB HD) into a Debian system, it makes udev eating all my memory, and more. Please image the partition table so that someone can

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-17 Thread berenger . morel
Le 17.11.2014 17:55, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Now, fact is that the hard-disk partition table is no longer correct, and when I plug it (it is an USB HD) into a Debian system, it makes udev eating all my memory, and more.

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: So, what part of that disk should I extract, which could be usable and sharable? Partition table, of course, which is probably at disk's beginning, but how long might it be? That depends. What kind of partition table? -- One disk