Re: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions
Partition table before defrag: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2491 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1657 13309821c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 1658 2491 66991055 Extended /dev/hda5 1658 1688248976 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 1689 1726305203+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 1727 2081 2851506 83 Linux /dev/hda8 2082 2491 3293293+ 83 Linux During the defrag, there were no screen savers enabled, I was in safe mode, and no other programs but defrag were loaded at the time and I let defrag do its stuff overnight, then when I woke up, it said it was done and asked if I wanted to exit it, and I said yes, and then I rebooted hoping to go back to normal mode and only shown a grub prompt. The partition table after a defrag ends up wiping out hda7, moving hda8's start point to hda6's start point and thus making overlapping partitions. (I checked that by typing rescue on the boot of the linux-mandrake CD and typing "fdisk -l") Since, I don't know much about command line options of grub and stuff, I don't really know how to fix these things when it happens. I did have a backup of the partition table that I saved on Norton AntiVirus rescue disks, but restoring them didn't show the grub menu stuff, so I simply fdisk /mbr'd (with the MSDOS fdisk) and then used removed the Non-DOS partitions (with the MSDOS fdisk), rebooted, then reinstalled linux-mandrake to get it working. If a problem with the partition table happens, how do you get the ability to boot back into linux without losing anything even when a restore of the partition table and boot sector couldn't do that? I have no problem getting back into windows (brutally with fdisk /mbr) but then I have no way of getting back into my linux (and don't know how in grub) and I simply just wipe out the linux partition and reinstall (partly because I didn't have much important stuff on it at the time anyways).
[newbie] Prevent access to directories higher than user's home?
Is there anyway to create a user account for telnet that only has access to their home directory and nothing higher up than that and only be able to run certain programs?
Re: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions
If defrag finds any errors during the scandisk-like mode of it (first 5%) it wouldn't let me continue. I ran scandisk before running defrag and it didn't do anything to my linux partition because I rebooted to linux to make sure it still works and it worked after scandisk was run and there were no errors in scandisk. Defrag is supposed to only defragment files within the partition, why does it go as far as wiping my linux partition and screwing up the partition table to do it? Even if I disable its check for errors and program optimizer, it ends up destroying the linux partition when run. What does defrag need to do to other partitions to get its job done on the windows partition anyways and WHY? - Original Message - From: "Ed Tharp" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 8:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions maybe the defrag is running scandisk, and auto settings are set to repair the boot sector? - Original Message - From: "Larry Marshall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 8:54 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions Why is it that everytime I defrag in windows (in safe mode) that it results in screwing up my linux partition and making my computer unbootable because grub can't read the linux partition? Maybe you're setting your defrag tool to do an entire disk rather than just the Windows partition. OTher than that, I have no idea
Re: [newbie] Licq 1.0, Pan0.9?
www.licq.org - Original Message - From: "Joan Tur" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 3:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Licq 1.0, Pan0.9? Jon Doe escribió: Licq 1.0 no clue whats going on there, installed fine but won't start can't start plugin qt gui. Any ideas? Licq 0.85 is working fine -some bugs-... where have you found licq 1.0 ?? -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de Linux: usuari registrat 190.783
