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

[Bob Hutchinson <hutchlists@midwales.com>]

On Monday 07 Nov 2005 09:43, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 02:13:41AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > 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:
> > > and parted is included in debian
>
> I'm using sid:
>
> apt-cache search parted
> gparted - GNOME partition editor
> libparted-swig-perl - Perl5 bindings for libparted
> libparted1.6-13 - The GNU Parted disk partitioning shared library
> libparted1.6-dbg - The GNU Parted disk partitioning library debug
> development files libparted1.6-dev - The GNU Parted disk partitioning
> library development files libparted1.6-i18n - The GNU Parted disk
> partitioning library i18n support libreiserfs0.3-0 - ReiserFS filesystem
> access and manipulation library, shared libraries libreiserfs0.3-dbg -
> ReiserFS filesystem access and manipulation library - debug version
> libreiserfs0.3-dev - ReiserFS filesystem access and manipulation library -
> development files parted - The GNU Parted disk partition resizing program
> parted-doc - The GNU Parted disk partition resizing program documentation
> python-parted - Python bindings for GNU Parted
> qtparted - A parted frontend using QT
>
> > That's odd.  http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages  doesn't find
> > it.
> >
> > http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=mkpartfs&searc
> >hmode=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

mkpartfs appears  under ia64 platform when I search debian.org...

>
> Weird. Have no idea.
>
> Thank you Ron.

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