Re: Partition not mounted. Was Transplanting old System to New Drive
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:21:05 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> You write:
>> I'm not sure in what stage of the migration are you right now (I did
>> not follow the full thread), but have you tried to boot from a LiveCD
>> and work from there?
>
> I have been avoiding that. I don't know if this is
> peculiar to Dell mother boards, but every so often, my CMOS boot order
> sequence gets reset to something that always puts the hard drive ahead
> of the CDROM. Since the hard drive boots, game over. As a computer user
> who is blind, most mother boards have no alternative method for
> configuring the CMOS than eyeballs facing a screen.
(...)
Okay, I got it, let's discard that option then :-)
> Getting back to the issue at hand, I am actually one step away
> from being where I need to be. The image on /dev/hdb1 contains some
> sort of flag that was copied from the image of /dev/hda1 which is, in
> fact mounted.
Let's recap. What you now want is to alter/edit/delete one of your target
partitions, right?
What does command "mount" say?
AFAIK, the mounted status for a volume is not hard-recorded anythere on
the file system that is being mounted, but, hum... I would not put my
hand in the fire for that statement >:-?
> If I could do something to /dev/hdb1 to clear that flag, fdisk will let
> me resize that partition to the larger size or at least it lets one
> change the last cylinder to then allow resize2fs to work. That's really
> all that is left.
Have you tried with "gparted" or "cfdisk"? The first it's a GUI based
tool which usually manages very well these situations and the latter is a
more convenient tool (text based) when it comes to manage partitions from
command line.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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