I'm out of patient with this format stuff. I ended up use GParted on Linux to fix the partition table.
But guess what? The format command on OI still doesn't see the extended space. There is a command called 'expand' to expand the label to whole partition. I tried this expand command. And guest what? It said there is nothing to expand! What a piece of sh8t! How misleading! What this 'expand' command actually do? The 'modify' command even give insane result where a partition table is full of zeros, zero cylinders, zero, everything zero! Of course I'm not that stupid to accept these results. I always typed no. BTW, what an insane default setting to defaulting all of the answer to be [yes]! Too disappointed I'm not bother to try other 'commands' of the horrible 'format'. But I did tried to run format the last time to see if I have any lucks. And guest what? After I selected my usb stick it just printed [disk formatted] and the whole system hung. I have to cold reset again to boot to Linux to post this email. What a terrible experience! I give up. Good luck with your OS. I'm out. ---- On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:49:04 +0700 Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss <[email protected]> wrote ---- > GParted crashed immediately when being started on a live usb system and core > dumped. > > I could sure the core file is of gparted since sudo file core reported it's > of 'gpartedbin' > > Trying running from terminal with sudo gparted Segmentation fault > immediately. > > Don't ask me to upload the core file to you. The feeling of mine when this > happened is... if I could smash the monitor, I would. > > Jim, I said with you I don't want to be spoonfed. But please spoonfed me > this time, just this time, please. I don't want to deal with the horrible > format command. > > format -e indeed showed the usb stick. But I have no idea how to accomplish > my goal. > > The live usb image is 1.9G in size and my stick is 16G in size. > > I want to fix the partition table, so it fully recognize my usb as 16G and I > want to resize the root partition (slice 2) to extend it to fill the > remaining space. > > Without fixing the partition table, format doesn't see the device's size as > 16G but just 1.9G. > > Of course, I could fix the partition table from GParted on Linux, but I > don't know if it would caused any corruption because of the incompatibility > between the two systems. > > I know how to use format the most basic way, mainly to prepare the disk to > install Tribblix to UFS and setup the swap partition. > > I have no deeper experience with it so far. > > Researching requires me to read the Oracle manual, which IMHO is always long > and boring to read compared to what of Linux and FreeBSD. > > This time I tried to type format after selected my usb stick and guess what? > My live system hung immediately and I have to cold reset it to boot back to > Linux. Please help. > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
