disk problem
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Sat Dec 31 01:40:15 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 20:04 -0800, Chris Norman wrote:
> What does this output mean? I'm a little more worried about this one!:D
>
> [root at bob ~]# sfdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 19590 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
> for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 19590/16/63).
> For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
> Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
>
> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 0+ 1164 1165- 9357831 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 1165 1215 51 409657+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 1216 1228 13 104422+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
>
Please send the output of fdisk -l.
I am not sure why but this looks really weird to me. Maybe sfdisk is
not reporting it the same as fdisk would.
> Disk /dev/hdb: 238216 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
>
> sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature
> /dev/hdb: unrecognized partition table type
> No partitions found
>
> Disk /dev/hdb1: 238216 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
>
> sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature
> /dev/hdb1: unrecognized partition table type
> No partitions found
>
hdb has never had a partition table written.
Is it a new disk? Possibly installed but never used?
Rough figures show that is likely a 200GB drive.
> What does that little lot mean please?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris Norman
> <!-- chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com -->
> Selling cheap but functional shell accounts.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard C. Isaacson" <ri at beldurnik.com>
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 11:58 AM
> Subject: Re: disk problem
>
>
> You are looking at the character device that is sitting on the dynamic
> /dev filesystem. That is the correct output to get but. Your disks would
> be mounted under /, /tmp, /var, and /usr or what you selected at
> install. just do a 'df -k' and you will see them.
>
> -richard
>
> Chris Norman wrote:
> > Hi people,
> > I have just put a 114 Gb disk in my machine and coppied a load of stuff
> > over
> > to it. The stuff seems fine, the disk is mounted on /media/hdb1 and I've
> > remounted that folder to /var/ftp (for the ftp server). The only thing is,
> > when I use df on either of my disks, I get this output:
> >
> > [chris at bob ~]$ df /dev/hda
> > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > - 249184 696 248488 1% /dev
> > [chris at bob ~]$ df /dev/hdb
> > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > - 249184 696 248488 1% /dev
> > Is that right? Shouldn't it say "ext2" in the filesystem column???
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chris Norman
> > <!-- chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com -->
> > Selling cheap but functional shell accounts.
> >
> >
>
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