Re: [POSSIBLE SPAM] Re: use a 3TB WD Mybook on old etch system kernel 2.6.18-6-486. parted 1.7.1 has bugs. can I use modern parted on other system and move over drive
> ok so I will try it tomorrow. > Thank you very much > I will report back > > Mitchell And the answer is: The drive was not recognized as partitioned and formated as two ext3 partitions of size 1.5T. even after I partitioned it on a modern sid system. The old debian kernel 2.6-18-2 recognized the gpt identity, but would not mount the drive. Oh well, I will have to take the machine down and update before backup. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130322215938.ga6...@earthlink.net
Re: [POSSIBLE SPAM] Re: use a 3TB WD Mybook on old etch system kernel 2.6.18-6-486. parted 1.7.1 has bugs. can I use modern parted on other system and move over drive
On 23:32 Fri 15 Mar , Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Should work... > > Looking at the code for 2.6.18.6 it does have support for > EFI partition scheme (GPT). > > To confirm if your kernel has support for it search > EFI_PARTITION in /proc/config.gz or /boot/config > to see if EFI partition is defined. cat /boot/config-2.6.18-6-486 |grep EFI CONFIG_EFI_VARS=m CONFIG_EFI=y CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y A1:~# q ok so I will try it tomorrow. Thank you very much I will report back Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130317033211.ga8...@earthlink.net
Re: use a 3TB WD Mybook on old etch system kernel 2.6.18-6-486. parted 1.7.1 has bugs. can I use modern parted on other system and move over drive
Should work... Looking at the code for 2.6.18.6 it does have support for EFI partition scheme (GPT). To confirm if your kernel has support for it search EFI_PARTITION in /proc/config.gz or /boot/config to see if EFI partition is defined. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/loom.20130316t003050-...@post.gmane.org
use a 3TB WD Mybook on old etch system kernel 2.6.18-6-486. parted 1.7.1 has bugs. can I use modern parted on other system and move over drive
Hi, I need to back up a lot of data from old etch system running kernel 2.6.18-6#1 System is remote from where I am. I had them connect a 3Terabyte mybook from wd. unfortunately I am running into the fdisk doesnt work with 3T drives problem, so i installed parted, and old parted on this legacy system (etch) which is 1.7.1 failed to create the partitions and confessed to me * You found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do: Don't panic! The bug has most likely not affected any of your data. Help us to fix this bug by doing the following: Check whether the bug has already been fixed by checking the last version of GNU Parted that you can find at: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/ Please check this version prior to bug reporting. If this has not been fixed yet or if you don't know how to check, please visit the GNU Parted website: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted for further information. Your report should contain the version of this release (1.7.1) along with the error message below, the output of parted DEVICE unit co print unit s print and additional information about your setup you consider important. Error: A general SIGSEGV signal was encountered.Aborted *** So I had the remote people take the drive to a more modern sid machine and using parted version 2.3 I was able to create a gpt partition table and partition into two 1.5TB partitions with ext3. So my question is, will the two partitions be mountable and usable on the original ext3 system? I am hoping the answer is yes. It will take a few long drives back and forth to find out :) Thanks Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130315211109.ga26...@earthlink.net
