* [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning
@ 2006-03-16 10:50 Paul Stear
2006-03-16 12:01 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
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From: Paul Stear @ 2006-03-16 10:50 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Hi all,
I am so dumb. I partitioned a new disk for 1 large partition, I then needed
to make a file system and by mistake I entered
mke2fs -j /dev/sda and ignored the warning. I soon discovered that I didn't
have any partition so I created it again with fdisk and the made the file
system correctly with mke2fs -j /dev/sda1
My problem now is that when I plug the disk in (it's am external USB disk) I
get 2 icons on my kde desktop both saying 200G Media one is /dev/sda and the
other /dev/sda1 but of course I only have 1 200G disk.
How can I correct this?
Paul
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning
2006-03-16 10:50 [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning Paul Stear
@ 2006-03-16 12:01 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2006-03-16 12:44 ` Paul Stear
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From: Hans-Werner Hilse @ 2006-03-16 12:01 UTC (permalink / raw
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Hi,
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:50:10 +0000 Paul Stear <gentoo@appjaws.plus.com>
wrote:
> My problem now is that when I plug the disk in (it's am external USB
> disk) I get 2 icons on my kde desktop both saying 200G Media one
> is /dev/sda and the other /dev/sda1 but of course I only have 1 200G
> disk.
Probably there are still the filesystem magic bytes written in the boot
sector (first 512 bytes). I think overwriting them should do the trick,
but I'd like a second opinion on this, before I advice you to do
"dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1" (but if there isn't any
data on that drive, then go and try this...)
-hwh
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning
2006-03-16 12:01 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
@ 2006-03-16 12:44 ` Paul Stear
2006-03-16 17:55 ` Matthias Bethke
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From: Paul Stear @ 2006-03-16 12:44 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Thursday 16 Mar 2006 12:01, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:50:10 +0000 Paul Stear <gentoo@appjaws.plus.com>
>
> wrote:
> > My problem now is that when I plug the disk in (it's am external USB
> > disk) I get 2 icons on my kde desktop both saying 200G Media one
> > is /dev/sda and the other /dev/sda1 but of course I only have 1 200G
> > disk.
>
> Probably there are still the filesystem magic bytes written in the boot
> sector (first 512 bytes). I think overwriting them should do the trick,
> but I'd like a second opinion on this, before I advice you to do
> "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1" (but if there isn't any
> data on that drive, then go and try this...)
>
> -hwh
Thanks for the reply, I tried your suggestion but it didn't make any
difference.
This is a print the raw data in the partition table
Device: /dev/sda
0x000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x090: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x110: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x120: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x130: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x140: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x150: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x160: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x170: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 AA
This is the same type of disk's print the raw data in the partition table
Device: /dev/sda
0x000: 33 C0 8E D0 BC 00 7C FB 50 07 50 1F FC BE 1B 7C
0x010: BF 1B 06 50 57 B9 E5 01 F3 A4 CB BE BE 07 B1 04
0x020: 38 2C 7C 09 75 15 83 C6 10 E2 F5 CD 18 8B 14 8B
0x030: EE 83 C6 10 49 74 16 38 2C 74 F6 BE 10 07 4E AC
0x040: 3C 00 74 FA BB 07 00 B4 0E CD 10 EB F2 89 46 25
0x050: 96 8A 46 04 B4 06 3C 0E 74 11 B4 0B 3C 0C 74 05
0x060: 3A C4 75 2B 40 C6 46 25 06 75 24 BB AA 55 50 B4
0x070: 41 CD 13 58 72 16 81 FB 55 AA 75 10 F6 C1 01 74
0x080: 0B 8A E0 88 56 24 C7 06 A1 06 EB 1E 88 66 04 BF
0x090: 0A 00 B8 01 02 8B DC 33 C9 83 FF 05 7F 03 8B 4E
0x0A0: 25 03 4E 02 CD 13 72 29 BE 46 07 81 3E FE 7D 55
0x0B0: AA 74 5A 83 EF 05 7F DA 85 F6 75 83 BE 27 07 EB
0x0C0: 8A 98 91 52 99 03 46 08 13 56 0A E8 12 00 5A EB
0x0D0: D5 4F 74 E4 33 C0 CD 13 EB B8 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0E0: 56 33 F6 56 56 52 50 06 53 51 BE 10 00 56 8B F4
0x0F0: 50 52 B8 00 42 8A 56 24 CD 13 5A 58 8D 64 10 72
0x100: 0A 40 75 01 42 80 C7 02 E2 F7 F8 5E C3 EB 74 49
0x110: 6E 76 61 6C 69 64 20 70 61 72 74 69 74 69 6F 6E
0x120: 20 74 61 62 6C 65 00 45 72 72 6F 72 20 6C 6F 61
0x130: 64 69 6E 67 20 6F 70 65 72 61 74 69 6E 67 20 73
0x140: 79 73 74 65 6D 00 4D 69 73 73 69 6E 67 20 6F 70
0x150: 65 72 61 74 69 6E 67 20 73 79 73 74 65 6D 00 00
0x160: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x170: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x180: 00 00 00 8B FC 1E 57 8B F5 CB 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 58 BB 35 CD 00 00 00 01
0x1C0: 01 00 07 3F E0 FF 20 00 00 00 E0 E7 49 17 00 00
0x1D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 AA
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning
2006-03-16 12:44 ` Paul Stear
@ 2006-03-16 17:55 ` Matthias Bethke
2006-03-16 18:58 ` Rick van Hattem
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From: Matthias Bethke @ 2006-03-16 17:55 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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Hi Paul,
on Thursday, 2006-03-16 at 12:44:15, you wrote:
> > "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1" (but if there isn't any
> > data on that drive, then go and try this...)
> >
> Thanks for the reply, I tried your suggestion but it didn't make any
> difference.
If there's nothing on it yet, you can of course zero-out the whole
disk---bit of an overkill but will do the job :) I would have thought
killing the boot sector would do it as well but then perhaps the volume
manager could be looking for a root sector?
cheers!
Matthias
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Partitioning
2006-03-16 17:55 ` Matthias Bethke
@ 2006-03-16 18:58 ` Rick van Hattem
2006-03-17 11:37 ` Paul Stear
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Rick van Hattem @ 2006-03-16 18:58 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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On Thursday 16 March 2006 18:55, Matthias Bethke wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> on Thursday, 2006-03-16 at 12:44:15, you wrote:
> > > "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1" (but if there isn't any
> > > data on that drive, then go and try this...)
> >
> > Thanks for the reply, I tried your suggestion but it didn't make any
> > difference.
>
> If there's nothing on it yet, you can of course zero-out the whole
> disk---bit of an overkill but will do the job :) I would have thought
> killing the boot sector would do it as well but then perhaps the volume
> manager could be looking for a root sector?
>
> cheers!
> Matthias
Normally it wouldn't
Problems like this can usually be solved by
1. wiping the first few sectors on the harddisk (I usually do "dd if=/dev/zero
of=/dev/sda bs=1k count=100", I know it's way more then neede but it never
hurts and types just as fast ;))
2. (s/c)fdisk the drive and create the new partition and reboot after it to be
certain the partition table is read again (I've seen otherwise before)
3. mke2fs, mkreiserfs, or something similar :)
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