On 01/01/2019 08:03 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 06:07:21AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
I am trying to modify the partitioning of a 240GB USB connected SSD.
It was originally created on a laptop running Debian 9.1 which is in
the shop for cooling problems.
I attempted to repartition it on a laptop running Debian 8.6 and
received an error message that the installed revision of e2fsck
could not analyze the first partition.
I then tried to perform the repartitioning on a machine I believe to
be running Debian 9.1.
*FIRST QUESTION*
How do I determine just what Debian release is running?
To a first approximation:
tomas@trotzki:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
9.6
Since it's possible to install packages from other releases (cf.
FrankenDebian) or from alien repositories, this is just a first
approximation.
My system reports 9.1 {as I thought it was}
It was initially installed from a purchased DVD 1.
My sources list now has a line
"deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib".
The only packages I've added have been from that repository.
When I attempted the repartition on the second machine the error report was:
GParted 0.25.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize
Libparted 3.2
Shrink /dev/sdc1 from 124.96 GiB to 80.00 GiB 00:00:00 ( ERROR )
calibrate /dev/sdc1 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )
path: /dev/sdc1 (partition)
start: 2048
end: 262051839
size: 262049792 (124.96 GiB)
check file system on /dev/sdc1 for errors and (if possible) fix them 00:00:00
( ERROR )
e2fsck -f -y -v -C 0 /dev/sdc1 00:00:00 ( ERROR )
Possibly non-existent device?
e2fsck 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017)
e2fsck: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sdc1
It is obviously *NOT* a "non-existent device" as it is readable on
another machine.
Actually it is also readable on this machine.
Note that this device doesn't have to be called /dev/sdc* on your
current machine. The kernel just picks whatever /dev/sda, /dev/sdb...
is free and allocates it. Those names are not permanent.
[snip]
*SECOND QUESTION*
What is this telling me?
That (most probably) the device didn't end up as /dev/sdc, but possiblyas
/dev/sdb (because that name was free). Most probably your other machine
has two block devices, thus /dev/sda and /dev/sdb are already taken.
I just reran. Everything worked. Murphy did not take a holiday ;<
This is, btw, the reason why nowadays the preferred way is to address
the partitions by UUID.
I working inside Gparted's GUI and just saved its error report.
Thanks/
HTH
-- tomás
