Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk?
Date:	Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:44:02
Message-Id:	`201002081143.30355.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] Re: When is a disk not a disk? by Nikos Chantziaras

1	On Monday 08 February 2010 02:25:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
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3	> a) "cfdisk" might work while "fdisk" does not.
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5	I get the same from cfdisk: "FATAL ERROR: Cannot seek on disk drive"
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7	> b) You have a corrupted partition table that you can try to repair
8	> with the "testdisk" tool
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10	Good idea. I'll have a go at that today.
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12	> Another thing: are you using busybox here or the normal version of
13	> fdisk? (Busybox comes with its own fdisk.)
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15	Bog-standard fdisk and cfdisk.
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17	--
18	Rgds
19	Peter.