Re: fdisk message error

2001-09-13 Thread Roberto Giorgetti
I cannot believe that I have to reinstall all, destroying the partitions that I already have! I have a lot of data there and it is quite impossible to backup it on other support! The expert mode plus verify gives: Unused gap - sectors 8912736-16839648 I don't understand if I have something wrong

Re: fdisk message error

2001-09-12 Thread Thomas Duffy
On Wed, 2001-09-12 at 13:18, Roberto Giorgetti wrote: > Have I to create a /dev/hda3 from 0 to 16706 before? If yes how is > this possible? I cannot put 0 as "First cylinder" (Value out of > range). I can only put value equal or greater to 8842 as "First > cylinder". well, I would suggest nuking

Re: fdisk message error

2001-09-12 Thread Roberto Giorgetti
Thank you Tom for your answer. (Also to Hakan for his one, I subscribe his question about the 'r'-Flag meaning). Maybe I didn't understand well how I have to proceed. In fact starting from the situation: -- Device FlagStart

Re: fdisk message error

2001-09-12 Thread Thomas Duffy
On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 13:12, Roberto Giorgetti wrote: > -- >Device FlagStart EndBlocks Id System > /dev/hda1 r 0 8322 4194288 83 Linux native > /dev/hda2 8322 8842262080 82 Lin

Fwd: Re: fdisk message error

2001-09-12 Thread hakubw00
Hello, first of all my condolence to all U.S. citizens, I still can not believe what happend. Quoting Roberto Giorgetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The 9Gb disk of my SUN Ultra 5 machine with Debian unstable is > not completely used, so I run fdisk /dev/hda and p command > receiving: > > --

fdisk message error

2001-09-11 Thread Roberto Giorgetti
The 9Gb disk of my SUN Ultra 5 machine with Debian unstable is not completely used, so I run fdisk /dev/hda and p command receiving: -- Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 63 sectors, 16706 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512