Re: Partition problems.

2011-11-05 Thread Johan Verbelen
. Fingers crossed. J. -Original Message- From: Camaleón Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 6:17 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Partition problems. On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:48:50 +0100, Johan Verbelen wrote: I've been trying to fix this disk for a week now, but everythin

Re: Partition problems.

2011-11-04 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:48:50 +0100, Johan Verbelen wrote: I've been trying to fix this disk for a week now, but everythin I tried hasn't been working. I'm a linux starter however, so that doesn't help. The drive in question is a 120G Maxtor that was housed in a NAS. After a power outage the

Partition problems.

2011-11-03 Thread Johan Verbelen
Good day people! I've been trying to fix this disk for a week now, but everythin I tried hasn't been working. I'm a linux starter however, so that doesn't help. The drive in question is a 120G Maxtor that was housed in a NAS. After a power outage the NAS reported the disk as empty. I took it

Re: partition problems

2006-01-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 15:56:17 + (GMT) david cuthbertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sorry, I am still learning, so not very good at explaining things. /dev/hda1 is winxp I now know that /dev/hda2 is the extended partition Then comes Debian: /dev/hda5 is swap /dev/hda7 is /home

Re: partition problems

2006-01-21 Thread david cuthbertson
Hi, Sorry, I am still learning, so not very good at explaining things. /dev/hda1 is winxp I now know that /dev/hda2 is the extended partition Then comes Debian: /dev/hda5 is swap /dev/hda7 is /home (ext3) /dev/hda6 is / (and everything else) (ext3) There are no other unused partitons or

partition problems

2006-01-20 Thread david cuthbertson
Hi, Mounting /dev/hda2 or /dev/hda6 to backup my hard-drive fails. /dev/hda7 mounts OK. Running fdisk I get: Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 20.4 GB, 20490559488 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 39703 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start

Re: partition problems

2006-01-20 Thread Klaus Pieper
Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 20.4 GB, 20490559488 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 39703 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 13564 6836224+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2

Re: partition problems

2006-01-20 Thread Mike McCarty
david cuthbertson wrote: Hi, Mounting /dev/hda2 or /dev/hda6 to backup my hard-drive fails. /dev/hda7 mounts OK. Running fdisk I get: Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 20.4 GB, 20490559488 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 39703 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Partition problems with 2.6 and udev

2004-07-13 Thread Luke A. Kanies
Hi all, I'm running the 2.6.6-1-k7-smp kernel on a fresh install of Woody, with udev. Most things are now working (although for some reason I can't seem to get udev to create the nvidia devices for me, even though I've patched the driver and the device shows up in /sys...), but my first IDE

help! root partition problems

2003-06-12 Thread Richard Heycock
Hi, I just ran grub-install on my root partition and not my boot partition, which added an x86 boot sector to the front of this partition. Doh. The underlying file system is reiserfs. I have tried dd'ing (after dd'ing the whole thing to a backup file) the 512 bytes from an existing reiserfs

Re: help! root partition problems

2003-06-12 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:05:09 +1000 Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just ran grub-install on my root partition and not my boot partition, which added an x86 boot sector to the front of this partition. Doh. The underlying file system is reiserfs. I have tried dd'ing (after dd'ing the

Re: help! root partition problems

2003-06-12 Thread Richard Heycock
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:05:09 +1000 Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just ran grub-install on my root partition and not my boot partition, which added an x86 boot sector to the front of this partition. Doh. The underlying file system is reiserfs. I have tried dd'ing (after dd'ing

Partition problems

2000-08-04 Thread Sven Burgener
Hi all When running fdisk -l I get the following: box:~ # fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 787 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 111 20632+ 83 Linux Partition 1 has different

Re: Partition problems

2000-08-04 Thread kmself
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 11:16:47AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: Hi all When running fdisk -l I get the following: box:~ # fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 787 cylinders Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System

Re: Partition problems

2000-08-04 Thread Sven Burgener
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: [snipped my stuff] If I'm doing my math right, your /dev/hda is a 1.5 GB disk. Which seems a bit small for the issue I suspect. But I suck at math. Something in th 6-12 GB range would more likely have these issues. Yes, it is a 1.5 GB disk. The other (hdb) is ~

Re: Known Windows 98 and Linux partition problems

1999-09-17 Thread John
Ill second that, a copy of the partition table has saved me on a number of occasions AS LONG as you have not formatted. Particularly with certain predatory operating systems :) Richard E. Hawkins wrote: noah noted, As you can imagine, I quickly ran out of space on the Win98 partition, so,

Re: Known Windows 98 and Linux partition problems

1999-09-15 Thread Richard E. Hawkins
noah noted, As you can imagine, I quickly ran out of space on the Win98 partition, so, using Linux's fdisk, I created a new FAT partition. Then I booted to Win98 and formatted this new partition. Windows was fine with this. However... When I rebooted to Linux, all the logical partitions

Known Windows 98 and Linux partition problems

1999-09-14 Thread James Lamphere
Greetings all, Anyone have any imformation on known issues between a Windows 98 and linux dual boot? I found reference to an article at slashdot.org called Windows 98 new partition behavior but it has been removed from their archives. If anyone knows of a known problem please let me know.

Re: Known Windows 98 and Linux partition problems

1999-09-14 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, James Lamphere wrote: Anyone have any imformation on known issues between a Windows 98 and linux dual boot? I found reference to an article at slashdot.org called Windows 98 new partition behavior but it has been removed from their