Re: formatting an e-book
Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 04 July 2008, Steve wrote: > >I just bought a 1TB My Book external HD with the idea of using it to back up > > both my Fedora box and my wife's Vista laptop. I was going to partition > > half of it as NTFS and the other half ext3. The documentation says that it > > comes preformatted with a single FAT32 partition but this looks strange to > > me > > > ># mount > >... > >/dev/sdc1 on /media/My Book type vfat > > (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=500) > > > ># fdisk -l /dev/sdc1 > > Wrong, you wanted the base device, probably /dev/sdc, not some partition on > it. Doh!! That's the 2nd time I've made that mistake recently. ]# fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 1 121601 976760001c W95 FAT32 (LBA) That's better! Now I think I need to upgrade my BIOS so that I can boot with this thing plugged in. Thanks, Steve -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: formatting an e-book
On Friday 04 July 2008, Steve wrote: >I just bought a 1TB My Book external HD with the idea of using it to back up > both my Fedora box and my wife's Vista laptop. I was going to partition > half of it as NTFS and the other half ext3. The documentation says that it > comes preformatted with a single FAT32 partition but this looks strange to > me > ># mount >... >/dev/sdc1 on /media/My Book type vfat > (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=500) > ># fdisk -l /dev/sdc1 Wrong, you wanted the base device, probably /dev/sdc, not some partition on it. >Disk /dev/sdc1: 1000.2 GB, 1000202241024 bytes >255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121600 cylinders >Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes >Disk identifier: 0xx > >This doesn't look like a partition table >Probably you selected the wrong device. > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >/dev/sdc1p1 ? 119512 153402 272218546+ 20 Unknown >Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. >/dev/sdc1p2 ? 82801 116350 269488144 6b Unknown >Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. >/dev/sdc1p3 ? 33551 120595 699181456 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3 >Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. >/dev/sdc1p4 * 86812 86813 10668+ 49 Unknown >Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. > >Partition table entries are not in disk order > >Anybody else had any experience with one if these? > >Steve -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Xerox never comes up with anything original. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
formatting an e-book
I just bought a 1TB My Book external HD with the idea of using it to back up both my Fedora box and my wife's Vista laptop. I was going to partition half of it as NTFS and the other half ext3. The documentation says that it comes preformatted with a single FAT32 partition but this looks strange to me # mount ... /dev/sdc1 on /media/My Book type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=500) # fdisk -l /dev/sdc1 Disk /dev/sdc1: 1000.2 GB, 1000202241024 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121600 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xx This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1p1 ? 119512 153402 272218546+ 20 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdc1p2 ? 82801 116350 269488144 6b Unknown Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdc1p3 ? 33551 120595 699181456 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3 Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdc1p4 * 86812 86813 10668+ 49 Unknown Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. Partition table entries are not in disk order Anybody else had any experience with one if these? Steve -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
