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From: Van Chocstraw on 7 Feb 2010 12:04 I have linux partitions on hda and hdb. When I'm booted on hda and run partition manager I cannot delete partitions on hdb and get an error. I can edit, set mount points and format but can't delete. I tried a live Suse CD also and same error. cannot delete partitions on hdb. What's wrong with parted?
From: DenverD on 7 Feb 2010 13:04 Van Chocstraw wrote: > I have linux partitions on hda and hdb. > When I'm booted on hda and run partition manager I cannot delete > partitions on hdb and get an error. I can edit, set mount points and > format but can't delete. I tried a live Suse CD also and same error. > cannot delete partitions on hdb. What's wrong with parted? probably nothing but it is really had to guess with so little info to go on... is hdb mounted? is the partition in use? what error are you getting, exactly? has hdb been throwing errors? have you been having 'trouble with it'? is hdb in a usb housing, or connected direct to the motherboard? what SUSE are you using? do you have any other operating system in use? show us the output of somethings....like: df --print-type df -h cat /etc/fstab cat /mtab then we have a lot less guessing to do.. and friend, have a read here before you reply: http://is.gd/2BfI3 -- DenverD (Linux Counter 282315) via Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (20090817), KDE 3.5.7 "release 72-11", openSUSE Linux 10.3, 2.6.22.19-0.4-default #1 SMP i686 athlon
From: JT on 8 Feb 2010 03:45 On 07/02/10 18:04, Van Chocstraw wrote: > I have linux partitions on hda and hdb. > When I'm booted on hda and run partition manager I cannot delete > partitions on hdb and get an error. I can edit, set mount points and > format but can't delete. I tried a live Suse CD also and same error. > cannot delete partitions on hdb. What's wrong with parted? Indeed, as another replier posted, little to go on. But here's my advice: use cfdisk instead of parted. I read about parted that there are some issues (with big disks mainly). I've had no problems with partitioning ever and always use cfdisk. Maybe (to answer your question) parted is what's wrong with parted ? :) -- Kind regards, JT
From: Van Chocstraw on 8 Feb 2010 08:42 DenverD wrote: > Van Chocstraw wrote: >> I have linux partitions on hda and hdb. >> When I'm booted on hda and run partition manager I cannot delete >> partitions on hdb and get an error. I can edit, set mount points and >> format but can't delete. I tried a live Suse CD also and same error. >> cannot delete partitions on hdb. What's wrong with parted? > > probably nothing but it is really had to guess with so little info to > go on... > > is hdb mounted? No, how else could I create a mount point and format it? > is the partition in use? No > what error are you getting, exactly? Unable to perform the function. > has hdb been throwing errors? NO > have you been having 'trouble with it'? NO > is hdb in a usb housing, or connected direct to the motherboard? It is primary slave > what SUSE are you using? 11.2 (assume the latest unless specified) > do you have any other operating system in use? No > > show us the output of somethings....like: When I get there later. > > df --print-type > df -h > cat /etc/fstab > cat /mtab > > then we have a lot less guessing to do.. > and friend, have a read here before you reply: http://is.gd/2BfI3 >
From: Van Chocstraw on 8 Feb 2010 09:30
On 02/07/2010 01:04 PM, DenverD wrote: > Van Chocstraw wrote: >> I have linux partitions on hda and hdb. >> When I'm booted on hda and run partition manager I cannot delete >> partitions on hdb and get an error. I can edit, set mount points and >> format but can't delete. I tried a live Suse CD also and same error. >> cannot delete partitions on hdb. What's wrong with parted? > > probably nothing but it is really had to guess with so little info to > go on... > > is hdb mounted? > is the partition in use? > what error are you getting, exactly? > has hdb been throwing errors? > have you been having 'trouble with it'? > is hdb in a usb housing, or connected direct to the motherboard? > what SUSE are you using? > do you have any other operating system in use? > > show us the output of somethings....like: > > df --print-type > df -h > cat /etc/fstab > cat /mtab Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 ext4 20641788 5685532 13907616 30% / udev tmpfs 1165804 588 1165216 1% /dev /dev/sda3 ext4 173300380 43155244 121341920 27% /home Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 20G 5.5G 14G 30% / udev 1.2G 588K 1.2G 1% /dev /dev/sda3 166G 42G 116G 27% /home /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6B200P0_B41ARKZH-part2 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6B200P0_B41ARKZH-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6B200P0_B41ARKZH-part3 /home ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 /dev/sda2 / ext4 rw,acl,user_xattr 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0 udev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 /dev/sda3 /home ext4 rw,acl,user_xattr 0 0 fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0 none /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint vmblock rw 0 0 gvfs-fuse-daemon /home/dbdblocker/.gvfs fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon rw,nosuid,nodev,user=xxxxxxxxxx 0 0 rpc_pipefs /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0 So what do you see? hdb is not mounted. parted sees hdb just fine. Here is the message: The partitioning on disk /dev/sdb is not readable by the partitioning tool parted, which is used to change the partition table. You can use the partitions on disk /dev/sdb as they are. You can format them and assign mount points to them, but you cannot add, edit, resize, or remove partitions from that disk with this tool. Again, what's wrong with the tool? > > then we have a lot less guessing to do.. > and friend, have a read here before you reply: http://is.gd/2BfI3 > |