Re: [Cooker] USB External Hard Drive Enclosure with 80 Gig IBM Drive, corrupt partitions.
On Tuesday 20 August 2002 00:26, Brent Hasty wrote: Transfering several gig to the drive was unsucessfull, left me with a locked up puter. Will be trying several 30GB partitions. > This is observed with MDK 9.0 B2 > I have a USB External Hard Drive Enclosure with 80 Gig IBM Drive. When I > try to use diskdrake to set up my partitions on this removable archive > volume, it all looks good untill I reboot then the partitions are broke, > and diskdrake shows they have never been formatted. I had formated and > moved data on and back off before the reboot. > This seems to be a repeatable error > I have one partition of 70 GB using a fat32 filesystem. > It will also not let me chown, or chmod the directory so that any user on > the system can add folders and files to the partition. -- "The place of the material world in the universe is that of an exquisitely beautiful precipitate or varied cloud-work in the universal Æther, determined by a geometrical necessity" ~ Professor John G. Macvicar1870 ~ Brent Hasty http://www.Hasty-Solutions.com
Re: [Cooker] USB External Hard Drive Enclosure with 80 Gig IBM Drive, corrupt partitions.
On Tuesday 20 August 2002 10:34, Pixel wrote: could you walk me through the steps to get you a debug report on this? > Brent Hasty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > Size: 76GB > > > > It formatted, mounted, updated the mbr of sdb and etc/fstab, and I > > clicked done. > > > > Free space on /home/scann: 708.0MB/708.0MB (0% used) > > Why is it not showing 76GB? > > I don't know. There must a pb in mkdosfs. > > > When I then click on Resize, it presents me with a box that has a slide > > that goes from 1 to 1000. > > > > Why cant I adjust out past 1GB? > > The resizer is bounded by fat size limitations. So the pb must come > from the pb above. > > > I then clicked Clear All. > > This left sdb with one large empty space, in the details it shows > > Empty > > Start: sector1 > > Size: 1023MB (99%), 2097150 sectors > > Cylinder 0 to 1011 > > > > What happened to my 80GB dirve? > > this is really weird. I wish I could debug this... -- "The place of the material world in the universe is that of an exquisitely beautiful precipitate or varied cloud-work in the universal Æther, determined by a geometrical necessity" ~ Professor John G. Macvicar1870 ~ Brent Hasty http://www.Hasty-Solutions.com
Re: [Cooker] USB External Hard Drive Enclosure with 80 Gig IBM Drive, corrupt partitions.
Brent Hasty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Size: 76GB > > It formatted, mounted, updated the mbr of sdb and etc/fstab, and I clicked > done. > > Free space on /home/scann: 708.0MB/708.0MB (0% used) > Why is it not showing 76GB? I don't know. There must a pb in mkdosfs. > > When I then click on Resize, it presents me with a box that has a slide that > goes from 1 to 1000. > > Why cant I adjust out past 1GB? The resizer is bounded by fat size limitations. So the pb must come from the pb above. > I then clicked Clear All. > This left sdb with one large empty space, in the details it shows > Empty > Start: sector1 > Size: 1023MB (99%), 2097150 sectors > Cylinder 0 to 1011 > > What happened to my 80GB dirve? this is really weird. I wish I could debug this...
Re: [Cooker] USB External Hard Drive Enclosure with 80 Gig IBM Drive, corrupt partitions.
Brent Hasty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A little more information. > So this external usb drive is recognized as /dev/sdb on this system. When I > go into disk drake I toggle to expert mode and select my 76GB partition, then > select type, then select fat 32, then select format, at which point I get an > Error --- dos formatting of sdb5 failed. > > Can fat 32 handle a single partition as large as 76GB? > Is there a smaller size I need to break this partition down into? i don't know, neither can i test, my test box has a 4GB hd :) > I am also having another minor problem in that when I try to specify the > mount point DiskDrake will not let me type my mount point in. It only allows > me to select from a predefined list of mount points. > > Is there a way to start diskdrake so it will allow you to manually enter in a > mount point? I think I fixed an occurence of this some time ago. It used to allow manually entered mount point only in Expert mode. So just choose "Toggle to expert mode"
Re: [Cooker] USB External Hard Drive Enclosure with 80 Gig IBM Drive, corrupt partitions.
On Tuesday 20 August 2002 03:12, Pixel wrote: > Brent Hasty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is observed with MDK 9.0 B2 > > I have a USB External Hard Drive Enclosure with 80 Gig IBM Drive. When I > > try to use diskdrake to set up my partitions on this removable archive > > volume, it all looks good untill I reboot then the partitions are broke, > > and diskdrake shows they have never been formatted. I had formated and > > moved data on and back off before the reboot. > > This seems to be a repeatable error > > I have one partition of 70 GB using a fat32 filesystem. > > It will also not let me chown, or chmod the directory so that any user on > > the system can add folders and files to the partition. > > I can't help you with such information. I don't see what that could > be. You have to find out more on your own more: Now diskdrake shows the external usb drive /dev/sdb as 76GB Cylinder 0 to 10011 then I click on the blank space, select Create, it defaults to having the Size in MB slide all the way over to 78533, fine I will leave it there. Default file system is ext3, this I changed to FAT32. Under mount point it allowed me to type in /home/scann. clicked OK Details Mount point: /home/scann Device: sdb1 Dos drive letter: C (just a Guess0 Type: FAT32 Size: 76GB It formatted, mounted, updated the mbr of sdb and etc/fstab, and I clicked done. I then launched konqueror, navigated to /home, and looked at the properties of scann` Free space on /home/scann: 708.0MB/708.0MB (0% used) Why is it not showing 76GB? then I tried this: [root@Spool home]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 241116 68756159912 31% / none193312 0193312 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda9 1746836 1713600 33236 99% /Archive /dev/hda2 3070432 1285464 1784968 42% /mnt/windows /dev/hda7 1280744 1004084211600 83% /usr /dev/hda8 1407264 94172 1241608 8% /var 192.168.0.254:/home8396520 6607944 1788576 79% /home /dev/sdb1 724996 4724992 1% /home/scann [root@Spool home]# Note that /dev/sdb1 shows as being 724996 in size, what happened to all my space? rebooting DiskDrake still shows /dev/sdb as being 76GB and df still gives the same output. Konqueror still shows it as being 708MB I will now try copying several GB of data onto sdb. -- "The place of the material world in the universe is that of an exquisitely beautiful precipitate or varied cloud-work in the universal Æther, determined by a geometrical necessity" ~ Professor John G. Macvicar1870 ~ Brent Hasty http://www.Hasty-Solutions.com
Re: [Cooker] USB External Hard Drive Enclosure with 80 Gig IBM Drive, corrupt partitions.
On Tuesday 20 August 2002 03:12, Pixel wrote: > Brent Hasty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is observed with MDK 9.0 B2 > > I have a USB External Hard Drive Enclosure with 80 Gig IBM Drive. When I > > try to use diskdrake to set up my partitions on this removable archive > > volume, it all looks good untill I reboot then the partitions are broke, > > and diskdrake shows they have never been formatted. I had formated and > > moved data on and back off before the reboot. > > This seems to be a repeatable error > > I have one partition of 70 GB using a fat32 filesystem. > > It will also not let me chown, or chmod the directory so that any user on > > the system can add folders and files to the partition. > > I can't help you with such information. I don't see what that could > be. You have to find out more on your own more: When I then click on Resize, it presents me with a box that has a slide that goes from 1 to 1000. Why cant I adjust out past 1GB? I then clicked Clear All. This left sdb with one large empty space, in the details it shows Empty Start: sector1 Size: 1023MB (99%), 2097150 sectors Cylinder 0 to 1011 What happened to my 80GB dirve? K lets reboot now::: -- "The place of the material world in the universe is that of an exquisitely beautiful precipitate or varied cloud-work in the universal Æther, determined by a geometrical necessity" ~ Professor John G. Macvicar1870 ~ Brent Hasty http://www.Hasty-Solutions.com
Re: [Cooker] USB External Hard Drive Enclosure with 80 Gig IBM Drive, corrupt partitions.
On Tuesday 20 August 2002 03:12, Pixel wrote: > Brent Hasty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is observed with MDK 9.0 B2 > > I have a USB External Hard Drive Enclosure with 80 Gig IBM Drive. When I > > try to use diskdrake to set up my partitions on this removable archive > > volume, it all looks good untill I reboot then the partitions are broke, > > and diskdrake shows they have never been formatted. I had formated and > > moved data on and back off before the reboot. > > This seems to be a repeatable error > > I have one partition of 70 GB using a fat32 filesystem. > > It will also not let me chown, or chmod the directory so that any user on > > the system can add folders and files to the partition. > > I can't help you with such information. I don't see what that could > be. You have to find out more on your own A little more information. So this external usb drive is recognized as /dev/sdb on this system. When I go into disk drake I toggle to expert mode and select my 76GB partition, then select type, then select fat 32, then select format, at which point I get an Error --- dos formatting of sdb5 failed. Can fat 32 handle a single partition as large as 76GB? Is there a smaller size I need to break this partition down into? I am also having another minor problem in that when I try to specify the mount point DiskDrake will not let me type my mount point in. It only allows me to select from a predefined list of mount points. Is there a way to start diskdrake so it will allow you to manually enter in a mount point? -- "The place of the material world in the universe is that of an exquisitely beautiful precipitate or varied cloud-work in the universal Æther, determined by a geometrical necessity" ~ Professor John G. Macvicar1870 ~ Brent Hasty http://www.Hasty-Solutions.com
Re: [Cooker] USB External Hard Drive Enclosure with 80 Gig IBM Drive,corrupt partitions.
Pixel wrote: > Brent Hasty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>This is observed with MDK 9.0 B2 >>I have a USB External Hard Drive Enclosure with 80 Gig IBM Drive. When I try >>to use diskdrake to set up my partitions on this removable archive volume, it >>all looks good untill I reboot then the partitions are broke, and diskdrake >>shows they have never been formatted. I had formated and moved data on and >>back off before the reboot. >>This seems to be a repeatable error >>I have one partition of 70 GB using a fat32 filesystem. >>It will also not let me chown, or chmod the directory so that any user on the >>system can add folders and files to the partition. This is natural for fat32. You have to use umask otions to set the permissions globally. fat32 wasn't designed for permissions, so that's the best you can do. $ man mount to see more -- |Registered Linux User #182071-| Buchan MilneMechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work+27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
Re: [Cooker] USB External Hard Drive Enclosure with 80 Gig IBM Drive, corrupt partitions.
Brent Hasty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is observed with MDK 9.0 B2 > I have a USB External Hard Drive Enclosure with 80 Gig IBM Drive. When I try > to use diskdrake to set up my partitions on this removable archive volume, it > all looks good untill I reboot then the partitions are broke, and diskdrake > shows they have never been formatted. I had formated and moved data on and > back off before the reboot. > This seems to be a repeatable error > I have one partition of 70 GB using a fat32 filesystem. > It will also not let me chown, or chmod the directory so that any user on the > system can add folders and files to the partition. I can't help you with such information. I don't see what that could be. You have to find out more on your own
