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On Thu, Jul 23 2015, Paul Tobias wrote: |
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> On 23 Jul 2015 02:31, <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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>> My new installation is running well, in particular it boots fine. |
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>> However the grub2-mkconfig seems odd. |
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>> It finds linux (all kernels) and the stub windows partition. But then I |
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>> get messages that both ext4-fs and FAT-fs have trouble with /dev/sda4, |
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>> which is the extended partition. Perhaps the fact that the windows |
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>> partitions sda[23] don't really have windows on them yet is part of the |
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>> answer?? |
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>> Has anyone else seen something like this? |
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>> thanks, |
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>> allan |
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> Maybe there was another partition on the disk around that location before |
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> and the file system signature is still lurking around? Run `wipefs |
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> /dev/sda4`, that will show you which signatures are there. |
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Wow what a command name! When I first read your msg I had a double |
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take, since wiping (i.e., erasing) /dev/sda4 would erase my entire linux |
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installation. Reading the man page helped, but I would like one more |
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piece of assurance. Am I correct in believing/hoping that when the man |
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page says |
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When used without options -a or -o, it lists all visible filesystems |
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and the offsets of their basic signatures. |
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it means |
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When used without options -a or -o, it lists all visible filesystems |
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and the offsets of their basic signatures *and erases nothing*. |
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I really don't want to damage any "signature" on the extended partition |
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that is needed to access the "sub-partitions" it contains. As I said |
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my newly installed gentoo resides on those sub-partitions. |
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thanks. |
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allan |
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