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. > 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. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." John Kenneth Galbraith
