I've noticed that my usb-SATA cables sometimes need to be checked (pulled apart and reconnected). It looks like
fdisk -l isn't showing the device? Realize this may be a long shot. JN On 13-02-27 08:21 AM, ed stuckems wrote: > Hello folks: > > I need to resize an ntfs partition to make room for a linux distro. > Since I've never resized an ntfs partition before, I dug up a spare > drive I had laying around with the intent to format it to include an > ntfs partition that I can later resize. In fact, the plan was to > format the drive to have a similar layout to the drive that I > eventually want to target. Alas, in trying to create the layout on > the second drive I seem to have F@&%ed it up to the point that it's no > longer recognized by the OS. Is there anyone that can suggest a > course of action to revive the drive? > > My test drive is a 1T drive that's connected to the computer via usb > and I'm trying to format the drive so that it'll boot in a (u)efi > machine. The last thing I did with the drive was to try and create > one large partition formatted with a fat32 filesystem. When I last > used the machine and drive, I was still able to mount, umount, and > access the drive with parted but when I turned off the machine and > rebooted, the device wouldn't attach to a device file in /dev thus > preventing me from either mounting the drive or using parted/fdisk to > repartition it. If I were to ask a specific question it would be "How > to I coerce linux into connecting the drive to a device (in /dev) so > that I can run something like fdisk or parted on the device be able to > create a filesystem with mkfs"? > > thanks, > eds > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
