On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 10:14 AM Vladimir Romanov wrote:
>
> Fdisk can not work with drives larger than 2TB. Your drive may be slightly
> (10 mb) larger than that, so the result. For such disks you need not Fdisk,
> but GPT programs.
Correction: modern fdisk provided by util-linux supports
On 09/07/19 02:34, Adam Carter wrote:
> lsdrv looks like lsblk, it's just that it handles afaik pretty much
> everything - starts with the disk, then lists any partitions, any lvm's,
> any raids, etc etc.
>
>
> What does lsdrv have that lsblk is missing?
Looking at "man lsblk",
>
> lsdrv looks like lsblk, it's just that it handles afaik pretty much
> everything - starts with the disk, then lists any partitions, any lvm's,
> any raids, etc etc.
>
What does lsdrv have that lsblk is missing?
lsblk is part of util-linux so its everywhere, which is handy.
Wols Lists wrote:
> On 07/07/19 02:12, Dale wrote:
>> Wol's lists wrote:
>>>
>>> What about lsdrv (as per the raid wiki)?
>>>
>>> https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Asking_for_help
>>>
>>> That handles pretty much everything.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Wol
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I don't have RAID so no idea.
On 07/07/19 02:12, Dale wrote:
> Wol's lists wrote:
>> On 06/07/2019 15:56, Dale wrote:
>>> Robin Atwood wrote:
On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 09:11:22 +1000
Adam Carter wrote:
>> OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is
>> what I was trying to copy to, the
Wol's lists wrote:
> On 05/07/2019 15:30, Robin Atwood wrote:
>> Thanks Vladimir, that sounds promising. Can you recommend any GPT
>> programs (this is new to me)? However the dd utility failed when I
>> tried to copy my old HD to the new one.
>
> Recommend any gpt programs? fdisk :-) ?
>
> Yes I
Wol's lists wrote:
> On 06/07/2019 15:56, Dale wrote:
>> Robin Atwood wrote:
>>> On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 09:11:22 +1000
>>> Adam Carter wrote:
>>>
> OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is
> what I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD.
>
lsblk
On 05/07/2019 15:30, Robin Atwood wrote:
Thanks Vladimir, that sounds promising. Can you recommend any GPT
programs (this is new to me)? However the dd utility failed when I
tried to copy my old HD to the new one.
Recommend any gpt programs? fdisk :-) ?
Yes I know it was said it doesn't work,
On 06/07/2019 15:56, Dale wrote:
Robin Atwood wrote:
On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 09:11:22 +1000
Adam Carter wrote:
OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is
what I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD.
lsblk is nice
$ lsblk
NAMEMAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO
Robin Atwood wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 09:11:22 +1000
> Adam Carter wrote:
>
>>> OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is
>>> what I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD.
>>>
>> lsblk is nice
>>
>> $ lsblk
>> NAMEMAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE
On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 09:11:22 +1000
Adam Carter wrote:
> >
> > OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is
> > what I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD.
> >
>
> lsblk is nice
>
> $ lsblk
> NAMEMAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
> sda
On Sat, 06 Jul 2019 11:14:38 +1000
Paul Colquhoun wrote:
> > OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is
> > what I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD.
>
>
> It would probably just have created a normal file called /dev/sdb
> which would have grown till
On Saturday, July 6, 2019 12:44:46 A.M. AEST Robin Atwood wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Jul 2019 15:34:18 +0100
>
> Mick wrote:
> > On Friday, 5 July 2019 15:30:06 BST Robin Atwood wrote:
> > > Thanks Vladimir, that sounds promising. Can you recommend any GPT
> > > programs (this is new to me)? However
>
> OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is what
> I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD.
>
lsblk is nice
$ lsblk
NAMEMAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:00 931.5G 0 disk
└─sda18:10 931.5G 0 part /var
nvme0n1
On 7/5/19 8:40 AM, Vladimir Romanov wrote:
May be your motherboard or BIOS just too old, and it doesn't support
such hard disks?
I remember a time when Linux would support large (multi-GB) drives when
the BIOS would not support them.
Linux could bypass the BIOS and talk directly to the
On Fri, 05 Jul 2019 15:47:04 +0100
Mick wrote:
> On Friday, 5 July 2019 15:44:46 BST Robin Atwood wrote:
>
> > OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is
> > what I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD.
>
> Cool, I hope you didn't overwrite useful data
On Friday, 5 July 2019 15:44:46 BST Robin Atwood wrote:
> OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is what
> I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD.
Cool, I hope you didn't overwrite useful data and you keep backups. ;-)
--
Regards,
Mick
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On Fri, 05 Jul 2019 15:34:18 +0100
Mick wrote:
> On Friday, 5 July 2019 15:30:06 BST Robin Atwood wrote:
>
> > Thanks Vladimir, that sounds promising. Can you recommend any GPT
> > programs (this is new to me)? However the dd utility failed when I
> > tried to copy my old HD to the new one.
> >
May be your motherboard or BIOS just too old, and it doesn't support such
hard disks?
пт, 5 июл. 2019 г., 19:36 Robin Atwood :
> On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 19:31:39 +0500
> Vladimir Romanov wrote:
>
> > Well, dd should work well in any case. May be your drive is broken
> > really?
> >
> > пт, 5 июл.
On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 19:31:39 +0500
Vladimir Romanov wrote:
> Well, dd should work well in any case. May be your drive is broken
> really?
>
> пт, 5 июл. 2019 г., 19:30 Robin Atwood :
>
> > On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 19:14:35 +0500
> > Vladimir Romanov wrote:
> >
> > > Fdisk can not work with drives
On Friday, 5 July 2019 15:30:06 BST Robin Atwood wrote:
> Thanks Vladimir, that sounds promising. Can you recommend any GPT
> programs (this is new to me)? However the dd utility failed when I
> tried to copy my old HD to the new one.
>
> # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=64K conv=noerror,sync
>
Well, dd should work well in any case. May be your drive is broken really?
пт, 5 июл. 2019 г., 19:30 Robin Atwood :
> On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 19:14:35 +0500
> Vladimir Romanov wrote:
>
> > Fdisk can not work with drives larger than 2TB. Your drive may be
> > slightly (10 mb) larger than that, so the
On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 19:14:35 +0500
Vladimir Romanov wrote:
> Fdisk can not work with drives larger than 2TB. Your drive may be
> slightly (10 mb) larger than that, so the result. For such disks you
> need not Fdisk, but GPT programs.
>
> пт, 5 июл. 2019 г., 19:12 Robin Atwood :
>
> > I just
Fdisk can not work with drives larger than 2TB. Your drive may be slightly
(10 mb) larger than that, so the result. For such disks you need not Fdisk,
but GPT programs.
пт, 5 июл. 2019 г., 19:12 Robin Atwood :
> I just bought a new "2TB" Western Digital hard drive. Imagine my
> surprise when
I just bought a new "2TB" Western Digital hard drive. Imagine my
surprise when fdisk reports it is only 10MiB in capacity! Is there
anything I can do to rectify this (of a technical nature)? I live in
Bangkok so it is not unlikely the guy in the little shop where I bought
it sold me a load of
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