Re: Can't write to external 160 gigs usb hard drive
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.
> 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.
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