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