Re: special device does not exist

2011-11-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Doug wrote: > Is there a Unix/Linux command to determine the uuids of your devices? The standard command is: # blkid The blkid command needs root since by default it (annoyingly) caches information in /etc/blkid.tab. (Cache info should go into /var/cache.) You can use ls (as a normal user) t

Re: special device does not exist

2011-11-06 Thread Doug
On 11/06/2011 02:56 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Chen Wei wrote: T o n g wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Did you recently change the partition table on that device? That will sometimes cause the kernel to be out of sync with the device. Bingo! I remember it was a "long" time ago that I changed the parti

Re: special device does not exist

2011-11-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Chen Wei wrote: > T o n g wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Did you recently change the partition table on that device? That will > > > sometimes cause the kernel to be out of sync with the device. > > > > Bingo! > > > > I remember it was a "long" time ago that I changed the partition. But >

Re: special device does not exist

2011-11-06 Thread Chen Wei
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 02:35:57AM +, T o n g wrote: > > Did you recently change the partition table on that device? That will > > sometimes cause the kernel to be out of sync with the device. > > Bingo! > > I remember it was a "long" time ago that I changed the partition. But > apparently

Re: special device does not exist

2011-11-05 Thread Bob Proulx
T o n g wrote: > I.e., my sdb7 is not in my system's device list. But the partition does > exist: Did you recently change the partition table on that device? That will sometimes cause the kernel to be out of sync with the device. You can trigger the Linux kernel to re-read the partition tables

special device does not exist

2011-11-05 Thread T o n g
Hi, I'm having a very weird problem. % mount /dev/sdb7 /mnt/tmp mount: special device /dev/sdb7 does not exist I.e., my sdb7 is not in my system's device list. But the partition does exist: $ fdisk -l /dev/sdb | grep sdb7 /dev/sdb7 15300 1784820474842 83 Linux And

samba error: device does not exist on the network

1998-05-02 Thread Pete Templin
Good morning, I'm experiencing some difficulties with a samba server I've got, and frankly I'm perplexed. I'm trying to use user security on a server that was providing server security, and I'm getting the above message (The specified device does not exist on

Device does not exist

1996-10-13 Thread Vern Hamberg
I'm having problems with devices. I put on a clean install of the latest Debian stable release. Then I downloaded and installed mdutils.deb, since I want to have /usr span a couple partitions on 2 drives. When I use mdadd /dev/md0 /dev/hdb4 /dev/hdd3 I get a message Device /dev/