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