The last time I tried using it (sometime in 2020) it crashed on me too. I just use my Debian machine's GParted instead.
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 2:26 AM Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
