Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning

2006-03-17 Thread Paul Stear
On Thursday 16 Mar 2006 18:58, Rick van Hattem wrote: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1k count=100 Thanks for the help That worked It is now only showing sda1 Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, I am so dumb. I partitioned a new disk for 1 large partition, I then needed to make a file system and by mistake I entered mke2fs -j /dev/sda and ignored the warning. I soon discovered that I didn't have any partition so I created it again with fdisk and the made the file system

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning

2006-03-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:50:10 + Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem now is that when I plug the disk in (it's am external USB disk) I get 2 icons on my kde desktop both saying 200G Media one is /dev/sda and the other /dev/sda1 but of course I only have 1 200G disk.

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Stear
On Thursday 16 Mar 2006 12:01, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:50:10 + Paul Stear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem now is that when I plug the disk in (it's am external USB disk) I get 2 icons on my kde desktop both saying 200G Media one is /dev/sda and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning

2006-03-16 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Paul, on Thursday, 2006-03-16 at 12:44:15, you wrote: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 (but if there isn't any data on that drive, then go and try this...) Thanks for the reply, I tried your suggestion but it didn't make any difference. If there's nothing on it yet, you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning

2006-03-16 Thread Rick van Hattem
On Thursday 16 March 2006 18:55, Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Paul, on Thursday, 2006-03-16 at 12:44:15, you wrote: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 (but if there isn't any data on that drive, then go and try this...) Thanks for the reply, I tried your suggestion but it didn't