Re: [gentoo-user] Old partition cleanup failing

2004-01-01 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks Norbert. That worked nicely. Cheers, Mark On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 12:33, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Maybe the best way to really clean this up would be to blow the > > partition away and recreate it in fdisk or some other tool? > > > > fdisk is for sure not necess

Re: [gentoo-user] Old partition cleanup failing

2004-01-01 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Mark Knecht wrote: Maybe the best way to really clean this up would be to blow the partition away and recreate it in fdisk or some other tool? fdisk is for sure not necessary here ... Unmount the filesystem umount /dev/hda9 Make a new filesystem mkfs /dev/hda9 if u don't have /dev/hda9 line

[gentoo-user] Old partition cleanup failing

2004-01-01 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, When I first set up my Gentoo machine I had a test setup partition when I did the first install just to get familiar with how it all worked. Later I set the machine up for real and have been using it for 6 months with this old partition not mounted. Now I want to clean up that old partition