De-activate a swap partition - I don't believe it!
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Sun Mar 19 22:47:31 UTC 2006
On Sunday 19 March 2006 22:20, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 19 March 2006 21:11, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > You might try fdisk to do the partitioning instead of gparted. That may
> > be the problem.
> > fdisk -l only reports the partition table it sees. If nothing it
> > recognizes is there it cannot report it.
> >
> > Sometimes the kernel sees one partition table, and when changes are made
> > it *requires* a reboot to see the new table. Sometimes it sees the
> > change without a reboot. I have not really figured out the differences,
> > but I do know that after a reboot it will see the current table
> > correctly.
> >
> > I tend to stick with the tried and true command line tools because of
> > proven reliability.
>
> I was going to do that, but the more I read and the less sure I felt.
> "There are several *fdisk programs around. Each has its problems and
> strengths. Try them in the order parted, fdisk, sfdisk." Three lots of man
> pages, and by the end I was thoroughly confused.
>
> Rebooting didn't help. During bootup it reported
>
> I/O error on device hdb, logical block 0.
>
Last word for tonight -
[root at borg ~]# fdisk hdb
Unable to open hdb
Anne
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