Parted working right?
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From: JT on 10 Feb 2010 03:47 On 10/02/10 07:46, DenverD wrote: > JT wrote: > >> On 09/02/10 12:14, DenverD wrote: >> >>> Jan Kandziora wrote: >>> >>> >>>> The devices are sda and sdb with that Live CD, not hda/hdb. The harddisk >>>> naming scheme has changed a long while ago with the transition from IDE to >>>> PATA drivers. >>>> >>>> >>> execpt, (i think) he could have an SATA sda drive and a IDE hdb >>> drive...the latter not being mounted and therefore unseen in the >>> output of all the commands i asked for.. >>> >>> >>> >> Nope, I've got IDE only here and they show up as 'sd[a-z]' in /dev/ >> >> But : easy check for this: do a 'hwinfo --disk' (pref. as root) and have >> a detail look at the entries labelled 'Device file' and 'Device files'. >> >> OP: Please post answer back: is it sdb or hdb in output of hwinfo? >> > you could be right, probably are...but, i don't see in this thread if > the OP declared if he was running SLED 10 or openSUSE 11.3 RCx, and i > _think_ that could make a difference...maybe.. > > on the other hand, i guess maybe he figured out what he was doing > wrong, or had done wrong (because parted should work on a healthy > system) and we won't hear from him again.. > > No, can't beleive that, that would be down-right rude wouldnt' it - giving no feedback after honest attempts to help hem ? ;-) -- Kind regards, JT
From: me on 6 Mar 2010 00:02
On 02/10/2010 02:47 AM, JT wrote: > On 10/02/10 07:46, DenverD wrote: >> JT wrote: >> >>> On 09/02/10 12:14, DenverD wrote: >>> >>>> Jan Kandziora wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> The devices are sda and sdb with that Live CD, not hda/hdb. The harddisk >>>>> naming scheme has changed a long while ago with the transition from IDE to >>>>> PATA drivers. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> execpt, (i think) he could have an SATA sda drive and a IDE hdb >>>> drive...the latter not being mounted and therefore unseen in the >>>> output of all the commands i asked for.. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Nope, I've got IDE only here and they show up as 'sd[a-z]' in /dev/ >>> >>> But : easy check for this: do a 'hwinfo --disk' (pref. as root) and have >>> a detail look at the entries labelled 'Device file' and 'Device files'. >>> >>> OP: Please post answer back: is it sdb or hdb in output of hwinfo? >>> >> you could be right, probably are...but, i don't see in this thread if >> the OP declared if he was running SLED 10 or openSUSE 11.3 RCx, and i >> _think_ that could make a difference...maybe.. >> >> on the other hand, i guess maybe he figured out what he was doing >> wrong, or had done wrong (because parted should work on a healthy >> system) and we won't hear from him again.. >> >> > No, can't beleive that, that would be down-right rude wouldnt' it - > giving no feedback after honest attempts to help hem ? ;-) > He could of been using an older version of Parted that had an older Kernel that didn't recognize ext4 file systems...just a thought. Cheers! eTech97 |