Carlos, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table = GPT ;)
gparted use GPT by default, but you can specify another type of partition. I am not sure, but I think it should be called msdos partition table. Regards, Alexandre ----- Mail original ----- | De: "Carlos Padial" <[email protected]> | À: "Oleg" <[email protected]> | Envoyé: Mardi 20 Mars 2012 19:56:54 | Objet: Re: [Elphel-support] external hdd | | What program did you use for formatting? What options does it have? | | i used gparted. I never managed about GPT or other partition tables | googling for info i can only find about GUID, Apple partition map, | BSD disklabel... what should be our disk partition type? | if i had to do the format only from the camera, i must wait to have a | new hdd | | I'd just follow our guide for formatting the HDD from the camera. | | | Yes, you can have several partitions. | | | Best regards, | | | Oleg | | | On 20 March 2012 11:47, Carlos Padial < [email protected] > | | wrote: | | | | yes, this seems to be said in fdisk | | | | | | | /dev/hda1 1 60802 488386583+ ee EFI GPT | | | | | | but i dont know about this. What kind of partition is expected to | | | work? | | | | | | some guidance will be helpful. | | | | | | best regards. | | | | | | 2012/3/20 Alexandre Poltorak < [email protected] > | | | | | | | Hi Carlos, | | | | | | | | | | It may be that you have partitioned it as GPT partitions. | | | | | | | | | | Best regards, | | | | | | | | | | Alexander | | | | | | | | | | | De: "Carlos Padial" < [email protected] > | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | À: "Oleg" < [email protected] > | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Envoyé: Mardi 20 Mars 2012 15:40:39 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Objet: [Elphel-support] external hdd | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | hi oleg | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | now i have removed again the internal hdd and want to try the | | | | | external sata. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | i have an external hdd with two partitions: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | dev/sdc1 344gb ext4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | dev/sdc2 121gb ext2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | i want to use the second one, i formatted it not to big | | | | | (120gb, | | | | | as | | | | | the internal). I formatted the ext2 in my computer, not in | | | | | camera... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | i get this in the boot log: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ---------------------------- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override | | | | | with | | | | | idebus=xx | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ide: ETRAX FS built-in ATA DMA controller | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cris_ide_init() | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | hda: ST3500630AS, ATA DISK drive | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ide0 at 0x10000000-0x10000007,0x2c000000 on irq 65 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | hda: max request size: 128KiB | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | hda: 976773168 sectors (500107 MB) w/16384KiB Cache, | | | | | CHS=60801/255/63, (U)DMA | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | hda: cache flushes supported | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | hda: hda1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | and in the camera from telnet: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [root@Elphel353 /]829# fdisk -l | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Disk /dev/hda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Device Boot Start End 1K-Blocks Id System | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | /dev/hda1 1 60802 488386583+ ee EFI GPT | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [root@Elphel353 /]829# cat /proc/partitions | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | major minor #blocks name | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3 0 488386584 hda | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3 1 488386583 hda1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 31 0 131072 mtdblock0 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 31 1 256 mtdblock1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 31 2 7936 mtdblock2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 31 3 24576 mtdblock3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 31 4 81920 mtdblock4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 31 5 12288 mtdblock5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | in camogmgui i see the partition detected but cant mount it. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | dont know if it is detecting the right partition. It's right | | | | | to | | | | | use | | | | | an hdd with more than one partition? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | thanks again. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | -- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Carlos Padial | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | surreal.asturnazari.es | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | _______________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Support-list mailing list | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [email protected] | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | http://support.elphel.com/mailman/listinfo/support-list_support.elphel.com | | | | | | | | | | | | | -- | | | | | | Carlos Padial | | | | | | surreal.asturnazari.es | | | | | | _______________________________________________ | | | | | | Support-list mailing list | | | | | | [email protected] | | | | | | http://support.elphel.com/mailman/listinfo/support-list_support.elphel.com | | | | -- | Carlos Padial | surreal.asturnazari.es | _______________________________________________ | Support-list mailing list | [email protected] | http://support.elphel.com/mailman/listinfo/support-list_support.elphel.com
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