On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 20:20 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 06:58:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 09:57 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 11:11:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 23:39 -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > > > Writing to NTFS partitions is fraught with risk. If you need to > > > > share data with MSFT systems, reformat the disk as FAT32. > > > > > > > > > > Solution: > > > connect it, start parted > > > > > > $ parted /dev/sde > > > > > > remove all partitions, make a new label; make new partitions with new > > > > Who cares about the disk label???? > > > > ¿? > > > > file systems (I chose ext2, one small fat32) > > > > > > commands: rm ; mklabel; mkpartfs > > > > mkpartfs? > > > > What's that? Such a program isn't in (unstable) Debian. > > > > ¿? > > http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_chapter/parted_2.html#SEC19 > > and parted is included in debian
That's odd. http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages doesn't find it. http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=mkpartfs&searchmode=searchword&case=insensitive&version=unstable&arch=i386 And the list of files in parted does not list mkpartfs. http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=filelist&word=parted&version=unstable&arch=i386 > > > To verify, print to the screen, then quit > > > > > > commands: print; quit > > > > > > Remark: cfdisk failed miserably, may be because didn't change the label > > > of the disk and udev was reading from it and mounting it NTFS, > > > whatever reason, after using cfdisk NTFS still remained. (¿?) > > > > Exact commands and error messages are always tres' useful when > > someone is helping with remote diagnostics. > > > > What do you mean? The commands are exact, and I was reporting how the > solution was found, not (at this point) looking for remote diagnostics. Sorry. "cfdisk failed miserably" led me to believe you were still having problems. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood." Alexander Haig
