Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !
On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:17:08 paragasu wrote:
> After browsing through that hard disk. i know there is nothing i want there
> and i want to format
> it. And trying to experiment with command (i did mention it) i
> type %cat /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 (all local hard disk shown as /sda*, sdb*
> in my system)
> and suddenly any read write to the disk produce error. if you want to see
> how the error look
> like i did attach the photos of the screen i took just few minutes ago.
So you ran "cat /dev/null > /dev/sdb1" as root and you think that may have
something to do with the errors you're now seeing on "/dev/sda2"?
Since you've written that there's no information you need on those hard
drives, I suggest you start seriously testing all your hard drives and
determine exactly where the hardware problem is before trying to install
an O/S. If you're absolutely certain that there's no data on the drives
then you can use fdisk on each drive and create a new partition table,
just in case insane partitition parameters are causing the errors.
Your installer should normally handle disk partitioning and partition
formatting, but if you want to do it by hand you'll need mke2fs (or
similar) after creating the partitition table and then some partitions
in fdisk.
If you're having difficulty with Puppy Linux you might want to ask the
Puppy Linux people as Puppy Linux is not Debian based. IIRC it's a unique
distro with a slightly Slack flavor. This is a Debian list.
Good luck,
--Mike Bird
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