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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.08.16.16.52...@gmail.com
