Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-12-03 Thread berenger . morel
Le 02.12.2014 19:27, tv.deb...@googlemail.com a écrit : On 02/12/2014 20:48, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [cut] Also, what is EBR (or EPBR, which seems to be some sort of enhanced whatever may be a EBR)? Extended Boot Record on DOS disks ? Where information about extended partition

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-12-02 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 02/12/2014 20:48, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [cut] Also, what is EBR (or EPBR, which seems to be some sort of enhanced whatever may be a EBR)? Extended Boot Record on DOS disks ? Where information about extended partition is stored. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_boot_r

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-12-02 Thread berenger . morel
Le 20.11.2014 22:26, Scott Ferguson a écrit : On 21/11/14 06:45, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Scott Ferguson a écrit : Might be worth fscking the disk first in case that's where the problem lies. Why ? fsck works on filesystems, not disks or partition tables. Good question - because I didn't sp

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-20 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 21/11/14 06:45, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Scott Ferguson a écrit : >> >> Might be worth fscking the disk first in case that's where the problem lies. > > Why ? fsck works on filesystems, not disks or partition tables. > > Good question - because I didn't spend much time thinking about it, or, b

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Scott Ferguson a écrit : > > Might be worth fscking the disk first in case that's where the problem lies. Why ? fsck works on filesystems, not disks or partition tables. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-20 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/11/14 20:13, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Scott Ferguson a écrit : >> On 20/11/14 12:45, Martin Read wrote: >>> On 20/11/14 01:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 20/11/14 04:06, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: >>> I think it's msdos. AFAIK mdos partition tables don't support anywhere near that

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Scott Ferguson a écrit : > On 20/11/14 12:45, Martin Read wrote: >> On 20/11/14 01:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 20/11/14 04:06, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: >> I think it's msdos. >>> AFAIK mdos partition tables don't support anywhere near that number of >>> slices. :( MS-DOS partition tabl

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-20 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:56:51 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org a écrit : > Now, fact is that the hard-disk partition table is no longer correct, > and when I plug it (it is an USB HD) into a Debian system, it makes > udev eating all my memory, and more. Could you please open a bugreport again

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/11/14 12:45, Martin Read wrote: > On 20/11/14 01:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 20/11/14 04:06, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > I think it's msdos. >> >> AFAIK mdos partition tables don't support anywhere near that number of >> slices. :( > > MSDOS extended partitions contain a linked lis

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-19 Thread Martin Read
On 20/11/14 01:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 20/11/14 04:06, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: I think it's msdos. AFAIK mdos partition tables don't support anywhere near that number of slices. :( MSDOS extended partitions contain a linked list of logical partitions. It looks, from the pattern of th

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/11/14 11:14, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > Le Mer 19 novembre 2014 21:16, Scott Ferguson a écrit : >> On 20/11/14 04:06, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: >> >>> Le Lun 17 novembre 2014 19:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : >>> On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: >>

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-19 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mer 19 novembre 2014 21:16, Scott Ferguson a écrit : > On 20/11/14 04:06, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > >> Le Lun 17 novembre 2014 19:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : >> >>> On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: >>> >>> So, what part of that disk should I extract,

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/11/14 04:06, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > Le Lun 17 novembre 2014 19:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : >> On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: >> >>> So, what part of that disk should I extract, which could be usable >>> and sharable? Partition table, of course, whic

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-19 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Lun 17 novembre 2014 19:32, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : > On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > >> So, what part of that disk should I extract, which could be usable >> and sharable? Partition table, of course, which is probably at disk's >> beginning, but how lon

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > So, what part of that disk should I extract, which could be usable > and sharable? Partition table, of course, which is probably at > disk's beginning, but how long might it be? That depends. What kind of partition table? -- "One dis

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-17 Thread berenger . morel
Le 17.11.2014 17:55, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Now, fact is that the hard-disk partition table is no longer correct, and when I plug it (it is an USB HD) into a Debian system, it makes udev eating all my memory, and more.

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Now, fact is that the hard-disk partition table is no longer > correct, and when I plug it (it is an USB HD) into a Debian system, > it makes udev eating all my memory, and more. Please image the partition table so that someone can reprod

udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-11-17 Thread berenger . morel
Hello. I think most of my problem's description is in title, but here are some more informations. I have a hard disk on which I tried a... quite unusual... procedure to install another OS. My try in this procedure [1] did not went well at all, but it's not the subject of this mail. Now, fact

Re: Corrupted partition table/drive

2007-03-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
J Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My goal was to erase the first three partitions (because I never used > them anymore) and combine them into one large ext2 partition for more > data storage. (There were a total of five or six between the > primary/extended.) Using the Ultimate Boot CD and X

Re: Corrupted partition table/drive

2007-03-14 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 13:27 -0700, J Merritt wrote: > I have a machine with three fixed disks: > hda = Windows XP (40 gb) > hdb = (see below) (60 gb) > hdc = ext2 partition for data storage (30 gb) > > hdb is the disk I'm having serious problems with. Before, the disk had > several partitions on i

Corrupted partition table/drive

2007-03-14 Thread J Merritt
I have a machine with three fixed disks: hda = Windows XP (40 gb) hdb = (see below) (60 gb) hdc = ext2 partition for data storage (30 gb) hdb is the disk I'm having serious problems with. Before, the disk had several partitions on it. I am not sure how many primary or secondary partitions there

Re: corrupted partition table

2001-04-30 Thread Brad Keryan
Wayne Topa wrote: > I upgraded from Debian packaged 2.4.2 kernel/headers to a kernel.org > 2.4.3 and now a 2.4.4 kernel. Due to space limitations, I removed the deb > kernel/header packages when I went to 2.4.3 because the deb package > wasn't available at the time. > > I have not seen any proble

Re: corrupted partition table

2001-04-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: corrupted partition table Date: Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:49:20AM -0400 In reply to:Benjamin Black Quoting Benjamin Black([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > hi everyone. > > a few days ago, my partition tables were fine. proof of fact: i > installed the new kernel-ima

Re: corrupted partition table

2001-04-30 Thread Brad Keryan
On 2001-04-21, Benjamin Black wrote: > hi everyone. > > a few days ago, my partition tables were fine. proof of fact: i > installed the new kernel-image-2.4.3-686 that was uploaded a few days > ago into my boot sector, and lilo did not complain; i am now running > that image. Hi. I am seeing th

Re: corrupted partition table

2001-04-21 Thread Benjamin Black
On 22 Apr 2001 00:44:13 +1000, Mark Purcell wrote: > > The very first thing to do is to take a backup copy of your existing partion > table as any changes to the partition table can be bad. See below... > i did that before i even posted the first message. > Once you have taken a backup copy you

Re: corrupted partition table

2001-04-21 Thread Mark Purcell
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 09:49:20AM -0400, Benjamin Black wrote: > Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 19590 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes > > Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 4909 2473978+ b Win95 FAT32 > Partition 1

corrupted partition table

2001-04-21 Thread Benjamin Black
hi everyone. a few days ago, my partition tables were fine. proof of fact: i installed the new kernel-image-2.4.3-686 that was uploaded a few days ago into my boot sector, and lilo did not complain; i am now running that image. today, i was trying to set up my cd writer, so i added append="hdd=i

Corrupted Partition Table

1998-08-21 Thread Victor Torrico
Hello, I'm trying to use the OS/2 3.0 bootloader to select Debian/GNU Linux, DOS or OS/2 upon boot-up. The OS/2 fdisk does not work. It works OK on another hard drive. If I hit control/alt/delete to reboot, bios gives me a corrupted partition table error. How can I clean up the part