Re: Partition not mounting

2008-04-02 Thread Frank
On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:54:29 +0100 michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 11:36 -0400, Frank wrote: > > Recently my Debian Sid installation has stopped mounting second > > partition (/dev/hda3) on boot. As far as I know nothing has changed. > > > > /dev/hda3 /media/gutsy

Re: Partition not mounting

2008-04-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Frank: > > Recently my Debian Sid installation has stopped mounting second partition > (/dev/hda3) on boot. As far as I know nothing has changed. What does 'mount /dev/hda3' print when executed as root? If it looks like an error, what are the last few lines from 'dmesg'? J. -- Thy lyrics in pop

Re: Partition not mounting

2008-04-02 Thread michael
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 11:36 -0400, Frank wrote: > Recently my Debian Sid installation has stopped mounting second partition > (/dev/hda3) on boot. As far as I know nothing has changed. > > Here's my fstab: > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # > proc

Re: partition table type

2007-06-08 Thread Mike McCarty
Mumia W.. wrote: On 06/06/2007 01:01 PM, Mike McCarty wrote: [...] The BIOS has nothing to do with disc partitions. The BIOS works either at an absolute physical level using geometric address: cylinder, head, sector, or at a logical physical level (LBA) using logical sector number. It has no ot

Re: partition table type

2007-06-06 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/06/2007 01:01 PM, Mike McCarty wrote: [...] The BIOS has nothing to do with disc partitions. The BIOS works either at an absolute physical level using geometric address: cylinder, head, sector, or at a logical physical level (LBA) using logical sector number. It has no other conception of t

Re: partition table type

2007-06-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Bob McGowan wrote: Which is why I asked the question. I'm not a hardware engineer or firmware developer, so having others, more knowledgeable than myself in those areas provide helpful info, is good. No criticism intended. I've posted this type of explanation on various groups like this a few

Re: partition table type

2007-06-06 Thread Bob McGowan
Mike McCarty wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jeffry s wrote: i am also wondering what all those partition type mean. can anyone point any documentation about the difference of amiga, bsd, dvh, gpt, mac, msdos, pc98, s390, s

Re: partition table type

2007-06-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Bob McGowan wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jeffry s wrote: i am also wondering what all those partition type mean. can anyone point any documentation about the difference of amiga, bsd, dvh, gpt, mac, msdos, pc98, s390, sun, loop? It's just

Re: partition table type

2007-06-06 Thread Bob McGowan
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jeffry s wrote: i am also wondering what all those partition type mean. can anyone point any documentation about the difference of amiga, bsd, dvh, gpt, mac, msdos, pc98, s390, sun, loop? It's just a different format of

Re: partition table type

2007-06-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jeffry s wrote: > i am also wondering what all those partition type mean. can anyone point > any > documentation about > the difference of amiga, bsd, dvh, gpt, mac, msdos, pc98, s390, > sun, loop? It's just a different format of how the start of your

Re: partition table type

2007-06-05 Thread jeffry s
On 6/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:49:46AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello > > I am installing etch in a new hd. I am using the expertgui method. > During the partition stage, I am asking about what type of partition > table I should

Re: partition table type

2007-06-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:49:46AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello > > I am installing etch in a new hd. I am using the expertgui method. > During the partition stage, I am asking about what type of partition > table I should select: amiga, bsd, dvh, gpt, mac, msdos, pc98, s390, > sun, l

Re: Partition greater than 2 Tbyte

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-08 13:14:02, schrieb Albert Dengg: > who needs >2TB for /boot ? M I want to test all kernels from 1.0.0 to 9.9.99 at once and want prepared for the future! :-P Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tam

Re: Partition greater than 2 Tbyte

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-08 08:12:17, schrieb Jon Ingason: > OK then, what is the logical limit? I have disk array with 14x500 GB > disks with hardware raid 6. That i about 7 TB. Can the kernel handle > that large filesystem and how do I do? Yes it can, even with 2.4.27. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Mich

Re: Partition greater than 2 Tbyte

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:12:17AM +0100, Jon Ingason wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez skrev: > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:52:12PM +0100, Jon Ingason wrote: > >> What is the physical limit for a diskpartition in kernel 2.6? > >> > > I think the kernel has a logical limit. The physical limit is > > de

Re: Partition greater than 2 Tbyte

2007-03-08 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 08.03.2007 at 13:14 +0100, Albert Dengg wrote: > who needs >2TB for /boot ? Well, I don't like throwing away all those old kernels ... ;-) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally

Re: Partition greater than 2 Tbyte

2007-03-08 Thread Albert Dengg
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 07:00:10AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:12:17AM +0100, Jon Ingason wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Roberto C. Sanchez skrev: > > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:52:12PM +0100, Jon Ingason wrote: > > >> What is t

Re: Partition greater than 2 Tbyte

2007-03-08 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:12:17AM +0100, Jon Ingason wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Roberto C. Sanchez skrev: > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:52:12PM +0100, Jon Ingason wrote: > >> What is the physical limit for a diskpartition in kernel 2.6? > >> > > I think the kern

Re: Partition greater than 2 Tbyte

2007-03-07 Thread Jon Ingason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez skrev: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:52:12PM +0100, Jon Ingason wrote: >> What is the physical limit for a diskpartition in kernel 2.6? >> > I think the kernel has a logical limit. The physical limit is > determined by your hardware.

Re: Partition greater than 2 Tbyte

2007-03-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:52:12PM +0100, Jon Ingason wrote: > What is the physical limit for a diskpartition in kernel 2.6? > I think the kernel has a logical limit. The physical limit is determined by your hardware. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto

Re: re-partition my hard disk

2007-02-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 09:46:36PM -0800, rocky wrote: > Hey all, > > On my PC I have 2 hard disks. The primary one has Windows XP > installed. Afterwards, I decide to learn Linux. So I got another Hard > disk and installed Debian stable successfully on it. Now, I'm thinking > of make my PC serve

Re: re-partition my hard disk

2007-02-05 Thread Michael Pobega
rocky wrote: > Hey all, > > On my PC I have 2 hard disks. The primary one has Windows XP > installed. Afterwards, I decide to learn Linux. So I got another Hard > disk and installed Debian stable successfully on it. Now, I'm thinking > of make my PC serve as the file back up server for my home offi

re-partition my hard disk

2007-02-04 Thread rocky
Hey all, On my PC I have 2 hard disks. The primary one has Windows XP installed. Afterwards, I decide to learn Linux. So I got another Hard disk and installed Debian stable successfully on it. Now, I'm thinking of make my PC serve as the file back up server for my home office. I will install back

Re: Partition image on the fly

2006-04-19 Thread IG
Ok, thank you very much. Im reading and trying LVM and rsnapshot and for while Ill use rsnapshot. But both are excelent altenatives. Later Ill read about amanda too. Thank you by hints Tom - Original Message - From: "tomlobato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, Apr

Re: Partition image on the fly

2006-04-19 Thread George Borisov
Digby Tarvin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 03:41:26PM +0100, George Borisov wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> dd? Only if the restore-partition is the *exact* same size, right? >> Same, or larger. If it is larger then you resize the partition after dd >> to the actual maximum size. We do this wi

Re: Partition image on the fly

2006-04-18 Thread Daniel Webb
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:41:59PM +0200, Andreas Rippl wrote: > have you thought about using something like rsync? It will speed up the > process of taking images tremenduously. As you are talking about a diary > backup - I'm not too sure what you mean by that - have you looked at > rsnapshot? He

Re: Partition image on the fly

2006-04-18 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 03:41:26PM +0100, George Borisov wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > dd? Only if the restore-partition is the *exact* same size, right? > > Same, or larger. If it is larger then you resize the partition after dd > to the actual maximum size. We do this with NTFS disk imag

Re: Partition image on the fly

2006-04-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:41:59PM +0200, Andreas Rippl wrote: > > #!/bin/bash > > /bin/rm -rf /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.6/ > mv /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.5/ /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.6/ > mv /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.4/ /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.5/ > mv /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.3/ /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.4/ >

Re: Partition image on the fly

2006-04-18 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:15:22AM -0300, tomlobato wrote: Content-Description: Mail message body > > Hi! > > > It is possible to make partition image on the fly? With the system (*Linux > server) running? > > I think in the aproach: At midnigth (less system use), the script remounts

Re: Partition image on the fly

2006-04-18 Thread George Borisov
tomlobato wrote: > > It is possible to make partition image on the fly? With the system (*Linux > server) running? > > I think in the aproach: At midnigth (less system use), the script remounts > partition readonly by some minutes while put the output of 'dd if=/dev/...' > to a file in an

Re: Partition image on the fly

2006-04-18 Thread George Borisov
Ron Johnson wrote: > > dd? Only if the restore-partition is the *exact* same size, right? Same, or larger. If it is larger then you resize the partition after dd to the actual maximum size. We do this with NTFS disk images all the time, I assume ext2/3 will work just as well. -- George Boriso

Re: Partition image on the fly

2006-04-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 11:15 -0300, tomlobato wrote: > Hi! > > > It is possible to make partition image on the fly? With the system (*Linux > server) running? > > I think in the aproach: At midnigth (less system use), the script remounts > partition readonly by some minutes while put th

Re: partition problems

2006-01-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 15:56:17 + (GMT) david cuthbertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Sorry, I am still learning, so not very good at > explaining things. > > /dev/hda1 is winxp > I now know that /dev/hda2 is the extended partition > Then comes Debian: > /dev/hda5 is swap > /dev/hda7 is /

Re: partition problems

2006-01-21 Thread david cuthbertson
Hi, Sorry, I am still learning, so not very good at explaining things. /dev/hda1 is winxp I now know that /dev/hda2 is the extended partition Then comes Debian: /dev/hda5 is swap /dev/hda7 is /home (ext3) /dev/hda6 is / (and everything else) (ext3) There are no other unused partitons or unpartitio

Re: partition problems

2006-01-20 Thread Mike McCarty
david cuthbertson wrote: Hi, Mounting /dev/hda2 or /dev/hda6 to backup my hard-drive fails. /dev/hda7 mounts OK. Running fdisk I get: Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 20.4 GB, 20490559488 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 39703 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Re: partition problems

2006-01-20 Thread Klaus Pieper
Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 20.4 GB, 20490559488 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 39703 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 13564 6836224+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2

Re: partition sda1 on usb pen not recognized

2006-01-12 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:11:53AM -0800, scanda wrote: > ==> update > > i've another laptop ( an old texas instrument ) with debian sarge, > kernel 2.4 > > if i plug the usb pen ( iomega mini 128 ) i've the same problem > > afther the command "fdisk -l /dev/sda" udev find the sda1 partit

Re: partition sda1 on usb pen not recognized

2006-01-12 Thread scanda
==> update i've another laptop ( an old texas instrument ) with debian sarge, kernel 2.4 if i plug the usb pen ( iomega mini 128 ) i've the same problem afther the command "fdisk -l /dev/sda" udev find the sda1 partition and everything went ok any idea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: partition sda1 on usb pen not recognized

2006-01-11 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 11 Jan 2006 07:55:03 -0800, scanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > i'm a debian sarge user, i've it on a compaq nx9010 with 2.6 kernel. > when i plug my usb pen ( iomega mini 128 usb 1.1 ) udev find it and > create the /dev/sda device but don't find the sda1 partition (FAT32) by google sear

Re: Partition of 189GB gives with df 19 GB.

2006-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 18:00 +0100, Pascal Huisman wrote: > I made a partition on a new disk, sda1 with size of approx. 189 Gig. > > But when I use df the size reported back, is 20 GB. > > What I did which led to this is: > With partimage I copied a image from a different hdd (size 20GB) to a

Re: Partition of 189GB gives with df 19 GB.

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:33:03 -0500 Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 11 January 2006 12:00 pm, Pascal Huisman wrote: > > I made a partition on a new disk, sda1 with size of approx. 189 Gig. > > > > But when I use df the size reported back, is 20 GB. > > > > What I did which led

Re: Partition of 189GB gives with df 19 GB.

2006-01-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 12:00 pm, Pascal Huisman wrote: > I made a partition on a new disk, sda1 with size of approx. 189 Gig. > > But when I use df the size reported back, is 20 GB. > > What I did which led to this is: > With partimage I copied a image from a different hdd (size 20GB) to a

Re: partition magic-ally

2005-06-18 Thread David E. Fox
On 8 Jun 2005 12:05:38 -0700 "prash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > i have a spanking new machine with a 40 gb hard disk - all for my > favorite distro! of course too much space is a bad thing too > (especially when you don't know how to allocate it). > i have decided on this scheme to

Re: partition magic-ally

2005-06-14 Thread Ionut Georgescu
prash wrote: hello, i installed the partitions using lvm on my home machine which only has 10 GB. here is a df -h: mantra:/home/prash# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/rootvol-root 1.7G 200M 1.4G 13% / tmpfs 126M

Re: partition magic-ally

2005-06-14 Thread prash
hello, i installed the partitions using lvm on my home machine which only has 10 GB. here is a df -h: mantra:/home/prash# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/rootvol-root 1.7G 200M 1.4G 13% / tmpfs 126M 0 126M

Re: partition magic-ally

2005-06-10 Thread Graham Smith
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 03:21:57PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote: When I first tried out the new installer yes I did read what documentation was available (the version of the installer I used was a pretty early release so I thought it would be worth mugging up on it) but

Re: partition magic-ally

2005-06-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 03:21:57PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote: > > When I first tried out the new installer yes I did read what documentation > was > available (the version of the installer I used was a pretty early release so > I > thought it would be worth mugging up on it) but I admit that t

Re: partition magic-ally

2005-06-09 Thread prash
thanks everyone for your suggestions. i do accept that lvm was a little difficult to grasp, but once i got the hang of it, it was a breeze. thanks roberto for a great idea! the thing i forgot to do that made me confused for awhile, was that i did not set the single partition to be of type "Physical

Re: partition magic-ally

2005-06-09 Thread Graham Smith
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 12:28:44PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote: If you have not yet installed, then don't worry about it. The installer lets you choose LVM as an option. Then you can add your harddrive as a physical volume and then make it the logical volume. From the

Re: partition magic-ally

2005-06-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 12:28:44PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote: > >If you have not yet installed, then don't worry about it. The installer > >lets you choose LVM as an option. Then you can add your harddrive as a > >physical volume and then make it the logical volume. From there you can > >create

Re: partition magic-ally

2005-06-09 Thread Graham Smith
If you have not yet installed, then don't worry about it. The installer lets you choose LVM as an option. Then you can add your harddrive as a physical volume and then make it the logical volume. From there you can create volume groups, which are analogous to partitions but can be resized at w

Re: partition magic-ally

2005-06-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday June 8 2005 12:05 pm, prash wrote: > hello, > 1. why should i (and how can i) define a /tmp partition when i > don't know what temporary space each app might take? a dvd burner > might decide to take 4 gb, a regular app just 10 kb. if i go higher > it's a waste 95% of the time, lower a

Re: partition magic-ally

2005-06-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:07:12PM -0700, prash wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > Scrap the whole scheme. Just use LVM. Trust me on this. It is quite > > worth it. Setting up LVM on a new drive is a piece of cake. Trying to > > do it once the drive has been in use for a year and you h

Re: partition magic-ally

2005-06-08 Thread prash
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:05:38PM -0700, prash wrote: > > hello, > > i have a spanking new machine with a 40 gb hard disk - all for my > > favorite distro! of course too much space is a bad thing too > > (especially when you don't know how to allocate it). > > i hav

Re: partition magic-ally

2005-06-08 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On 2005-06-08, prash wrote: > hello, > i have a spanking new machine with a 40 gb hard disk - all for my > favorite distro! of course too much space is a bad thing too > (especially when you don't know how to allocate it). > i have decided on this scheme to begin with: > / : 7.

Re: partition magic-ally

2005-06-08 Thread mess-mate
prash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | hello, | i have a spanking new machine with a 40 gb hard disk - all for my | favorite distro! of course too much space is a bad thing too | (especially when you don't know how to allocate it). | i have decided on this scheme to begin with: | /

Re: partition magic-ally

2005-06-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:05:38PM -0700, prash wrote: > hello, > i have a spanking new machine with a 40 gb hard disk - all for my > favorite distro! of course too much space is a bad thing too > (especially when you don't know how to allocate it). > i have decided on this scheme to begin with

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-14 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Tuesday, 14 December 2004, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tuesday 14 December 2004 19:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian.org >wrote: >> After reboot, partitioning /dev/hdd and formating /dev/hdd partitions, >> I fdisk -l /dev/hdc (and all drives for that matter) and I was >> surprised

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-14 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 14 December 2004 19:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After reboot, partitioning /dev/hdd and formating /dev/hdd partitions, > I  fdisk -l /dev/hdc (and all drives for that matter) and I was > surprised to see that the partition table is now correct after rebooting > -- hdc was the drive t

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread Sam Watkins
You can also try "regular" parted, in the "parted" package. This is a command-line tool, very reliable, and fairly easy to use. Personally I'd rather not use a GUI to munge my partitions, especially as the X server has not been all that stable lately. qtparted is a frontend to parted. Unfortunat

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 13.12.2004 at 08:57 +0200, David Baron wrote: > QTparted is a very dangerous program. Rubbish, unless you can provide some evidence? I have used qtparted for a couple of years to resize partitions, without any problems. Dave. -- Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
Dnia 13-12-2004 10:56,Francois Cerbelle napisał: > Le Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:57:20AM +0200, David Baron ecrit : >> On Monday 13 December 2004 06:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> wrote: >> > I suggest you to download the Knoppix CD and use QTparted which is >> > some sort of PartitionMagic clone. >> >> B

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Monday, 13 December 2004, Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com> wrote: >At Monday, 13 December 2004, Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >*snip* >> >>To be honest, I'm not sure. If you were planning to re-partition and >>fdisk, the

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Monday, 13 December 2004, Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: *snip* > >To be honest, I'm not sure. If you were planning to re-partition and >fdisk, then you'll be backing up anyway ... So, do you backup, then try >qtparted :-) > >Dave. >-- >Dave Ew

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread David Baron
On Monday 13 December 2004 17:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Interesting. Will this work if I have to fix partitions that do not > end on cylinder boundaries? If it does in fact read them at all -- don't dare. At least in my case it complains and exits leaving my partitions, for better or for wo

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread Dave Ewart
to later format the partitions, > great! To be honest, I'm not sure. If you were planning to re-partition and fdisk, then you'll be backing up anyway ... So, do you backup, then try qtparted :-) Dave. -- Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me

Re: Partition Resizing2

2004-12-13 Thread David Baron
On Monday 13 December 2004 15:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > QTparted is a very dangerous program. > > Rubbish, unless you can provide some evidence? In PartitionMagic (costs $), you set up your steps and then commit. Worked perfectly first time out. QTparted looks like it works like this but

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Monday, 13 December 2004, Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Monday, 13.12.2004 at 08:57 +0200, David Baron wrote: > >> QTparted is a very dangerous program. > >Rubbish, unless you can provide some evidence? > >I have used qtparted for a couple of years to resize partitions, without >any

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread Francois Cerbelle
Le Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:57:20AM +0200, David Baron ecrit : > On Monday 13 December 2004 06:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > I suggest you to download the Knoppix CD and use QTparted which is > > some sort of PartitionMagic clone. > > Back it up first. > PartitionMagic, if it does not complai

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-13 Thread David Baron
On Monday 13 December 2004 06:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I suggest you to download the Knoppix CD and use QTparted which is > some sort of PartitionMagic clone. Back it up first. PartitionMagic, if it does not complain about the partitions, will usually do just fine. QTparted is a very dang

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 01:22:33PM +, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > Trying to upgrade to Sarge and discovered that on my last reinstall of > woody that I switched the partition sizes on /var and /home. Now /var > is too small to hold packages when doing apt-get dist-upgrade. My > question is

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-12 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Leonard Chatagnier_, on 12/12/04 08:22,typed: Please copy any response to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I can't cope with all the lists messages when subscribed. Then why don't you start using gmane newsgoups? http://gmane.org/ With this you can read the mailing ist in a newsreader and you can

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-12 Thread Francois Cerbelle
Le Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 01:22:33PM +, Leonard Chatagnier ecrit : > Trying to upgrade to Sarge and discovered that on my last reinstall > of woody that I switched the partition sizes on /var and /home. Now > /var is too small to hold packages when doing apt-get dist-upgrade. > My question is: C

Re: Partition Resizing

2004-12-12 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Leonard Chatagnier (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Trying to upgrade to Sarge and discovered that on my last reinstall of > woody that I switched the partition sizes on /var and /home. Now /var > is too small to hold packages when doing apt-get dist-upgrade. My > question is: Can I resize

Re: partition magic?

2004-12-02 Thread Douglas Ward
belahcene wrote: Hi every body, I have a machine with only ONE partion where win$ is installed, I want the equivalent of magicPartition ( something like diskdrake of mandrake on debian), either on windows or on linux ( to run it from knoppix) to create a new partition without loosing the co

Re: Re: partition magic?

2004-11-26 Thread belahcene
yes may be resize2fs could do it I don't check it , but don't forget that I want to resize the partition, before installing the linux, if it is , why to resize ?? so I want to use it either via gnoppix, knoppix or any other live-cd, or from windows. I tried on Knoppix 3.6, it 's true that qtpa

Re: partition magic?

2004-11-25 Thread Michael Spang
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! belahcene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 25/11/2004 10:57:25 AM: > Hi every body, > I have a machine with only ONE partion where win$ is installed, > I want the equivalent of magicPartition ( something like diskdrake of > mandrake on debian), e

Re: partition magic?

2004-11-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! belahcene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 25/11/2004 10:57:25 AM: > Hi every body, > I have a machine with only ONE partion where win$ is installed, > I want the equivalent of magicPartition ( something like diskdrake of > mandrake on debian), either on windows or on

Re: Re: partition magic?

2004-11-25 Thread belahcene
thank you I find it, this tool is not integarted to the debian installeur ? I is in suse!! suse ( this is not the case for RH ou fedora at least for RC2) at the installation step, gives the possibility for disk partitionning. it will be very usefull, if it is integrated in next releases!! t

Re: partition magic?

2004-11-25 Thread andreas . sumper
Hi! belahcene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 25/11/2004 10:57:25 AM: > Hi every body, > I have  a machine with only ONE partion where win$ is installed, > I want the equivalent of magicPartition ( something like diskdrake of > mandrake on debian), either  on windows or on linux ( to run it  from

Re: partition /var is full

2004-09-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hello, > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't > download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin. > To solve t

Re: partition /var is full

2004-09-28 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 05:14:36PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't

Re: partition /var is full

2004-09-28 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > Hello, > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't > download my messages in /var

Re: partition /var is full

2004-09-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 12:08:54AM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:28:31PM +0200, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > > >

Re: partition /var is full

2004-09-28 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > Hello, > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't > download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin. > To solve the problem temporari

Re: partition /var is full

2004-09-28 Thread Gerard Robin
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:28:31PM +0200, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't

Re: partition /var is full

2004-09-28 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > Hello, > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't > download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin. > To solve the problem temporari

Re: partition /var is full

2004-09-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > Hello, > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't > download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin. > To solve the problem temporari

Re: partition second hard drive

2004-09-27 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:36:45AM +1200, cr wrote: > On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 04:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello all, > > I had a dual boot system with Windows and Linux > > installed. Bought a new cd writer and found out I had to > > upgrade win 98 to SE to use new software for writer. SE >

Re: partition second hard drive

2004-09-26 Thread maikhai
On Sunday 26 September 2004 07:02 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 12:01:01PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > > My question is How do I reformat my second hard > > > drive that is presently Fat 32 windows so that Linux can > > > use it for backup. I tried cfdisk b

Re: partition second hard drive

2004-09-26 Thread Silvan
On Saturday 25 September 2004 04:02 pm, Douglas G. Pollard Sr. wrote: > hda: Maxtor 6E040L0, ATA DISK drive > hdb: Maxtor 88400D8, ATA DISK drive > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [PTBL] [4998/255/63] p1 p2 < p5 > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: [PTBL] [1021/255/63] p1 Looks like it shou

Re: partition second hard drive

2004-09-26 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 12:01:01PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My question is How do I reformat my second hard > > drive that is presently Fat 32 windows so that Linux can > > use it for backup. I tried cfdisk but linux cannot see th

Re: partition second hard drive

2004-09-26 Thread cr
On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 04:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > I had a dual boot system with Windows and Linux > installed. Bought a new cd writer and found out I had to > upgrade win 98 to SE to use new software for writer. SE > costs more than the writer did. Nuts to microsoft. >

Re: partition second hard drive

2004-09-25 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
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Re: partition second hard drive

2004-09-25 Thread Douglas G. Pollard Sr.
On Saturday 25 September 2004 12:10 pm, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 12:01:01PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello all, > > I had a dual boot system with Windows and Linux > > installed. Bought a new cd writer and found out I had to > > upgrade win 98 to SE to use new s

Re: partition second hard drive

2004-09-25 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 12:01:01PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > I had a dual boot system with Windows and Linux > installed. Bought a new cd writer and found out I had to > upgrade win 98 to SE to use new software for writer. SE > costs more than the writer did. Nuts to

Re: partition/grub errors w/sarge iso (solved)

2004-09-20 Thread Rob Benton
Russel Hill wrote: Rob Benton wrote: Yeah I've got a Seagate Barracuda 40 GB. I think the next thing I'll try is using cfdisk to create my partitions and then just use the sarge iso for installing. I'll report back later. Any luck/news so far? - DISCLAIM

Re: partition/grub errors w/sarge iso

2004-09-17 Thread Rob Benton
Russel Hill wrote: Rob Benton wrote: Hey I posted a couple weeks ago about not being able to boot w/grub after installing from a sarge iso. I wound up returning the drive b/c I thought it was bad. I got a new one in yesterday and I'm still having the same problems. install root to hdb1. insta

Re: partition/grub errors w/sarge iso

2004-09-17 Thread Russel Hill
Rob Benton wrote: Hey I posted a couple weeks ago about not being able to boot w/grub after installing from a sarge iso. I wound up returning the drive b/c I thought it was bad. I got a new one in yesterday and I'm still having the same problems. install root to hdb1. install grub to hdb1. re

Re: Partition sizes

2004-06-12 Thread David Balch
Cheers Patrick, that's helpful to know. There's no decent reason for the small partition sizes - just me not knowing what I'm doing :-/ Hey, if I changed the name from blue, I'd have to give it a paint job. You'll just have to live with it :-P Cheers, Dave. On 11/06/04 21:28, Patrick Lane wrote

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