Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread ben
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Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread prover
From: "Mike Dresser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 5:35 PM Subject: Re: Q: cfdisk error > > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, ben wrote: > > > man cfdisk reports a bug: it doesn't support multiple disk

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread prover
From: "Mike Dresser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alice M. Pinard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 5:15 PM Subject: Re: Q: cfdisk error > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Alice M. Pinard wrote: > > > > > Trying to ready a 60g drive on a Promise U

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread prover
From: "Mike Dresser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 5:16 PM Subject: Re: Q: cfdisk error > > man cfdisk reports a bug: it doesn't support multiple disks; it may possibly > > have a size limitation

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread prover
From: "Alice M. Pinard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:21 PM Subject: Re: Q: cfdisk error > > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > > > "Alice M. Pinard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread prover
From: "Scott Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:34 PM Subject: Re: Q: cfdisk error > On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 07:21, Alice M. Pinard wrote: > > > Let me clarify > > > > I have one hard drive, 2g. It's almost full. The well

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread prover
From: "ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:33 PM Subject: Re: Q: cfdisk error > On Tuesday 04 June 2002 04:21 am, Alice M. Pinard wrote: > [snip] > > > > now, the 'hde' stuff is new this login, which is nice... means I did at > &

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread prover
From: "Elizabeth Barham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alice M. Pinard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 8:01 AM Subject: Re: Q: cfdisk error > "Alice M. Pinard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Trying to ready a 60g dri

Re: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread prover
From: "Alice M. Pinard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 6:20 AM Subject: Q: cfdisk error > > Trying to ready a 60g drive on a Promise Ultra card for first use. > > used MAKEDEV to create /dev/hde > > when I did 'cfdisk /dev/hde' I

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, ben wrote: > man cfdisk reports a bug: it doesn't support multiple disks; it may possibly > have a size limitation also. Just thought of something, perhaps that means you can't do cfdisk /dev/hdb /dev/hdc /dev/hdd on a nice new collection of disks? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread Mike Dresser
> man cfdisk reports a bug: it doesn't support multiple disks; it may possibly > have a size limitation also. > > ben I've partitioned 120 gig drives with cfdisk, so it's good to at least that point. In this case, it seems to be an empty partition table, and cfdisk -z should fix that -- To UNS

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Alice M. Pinard wrote: > > Trying to ready a 60g drive on a Promise Ultra card for first use. > > used MAKEDEV to create /dev/hde > > when I did 'cfdisk /dev/hde' I got "no partition table or unknown > signature on partition table" > > um... does that sound at all right? cfd

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread Alice M. Pinard
"Scott Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 07:21, Alice M. Pinard wrote: > > > Let me clarify > > > > I have one hard drive, 2g. It's almost full. The well-meaning bf bought me > > a 60g hd. My motherboard doesn't grok 60g. I bought a Pr

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 07:21, Alice M. Pinard wrote: > Let me clarify > > I have one hard drive, 2g. It's almost full. The well-meaning bf bought me > a 60g hd. My motherboard doesn't grok 60g. I bought a Promise Ultra > ATA/100 pci adapter card to be its ide controller. Eventually I will be >

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread ben
On Tuesday 04 June 2002 04:21 am, Alice M. Pinard wrote: [snip] > > now, the 'hde' stuff is new this login, which is nice... means I did at > least that right. Last night I had no /dev/hde so I had to use MAKEDEV to > make it > > 'cdisk /dev/hde' still however says the stuff about no partition > ta

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread Alice M. Pinard
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > "Alice M. Pinard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Trying to ready a 60g drive on a Promise Ultra card for first use. > > > > used MAKEDEV to create /dev/hde > > > > when I did 'cfdisk /dev/hde' I got "no partition table or unknown > > signature

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread Elizabeth Barham
"Alice M. Pinard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Trying to ready a 60g drive on a Promise Ultra card for first use. > > used MAKEDEV to create /dev/hde > > when I did 'cfdisk /dev/hde' I got "no partition table or unknown > signature on partition table" > > um... does that sound at all right?

Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-03 Thread Alice M. Pinard
Trying to ready a 60g drive on a Promise Ultra card for first use. used MAKEDEV to create /dev/hde when I did 'cfdisk /dev/hde' I got "no partition table or unknown signature on partition table" um... does that sound at all right? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: cfdisk error: Writing partition table to disk...File size limit exceeded

2002-02-18 Thread Dougie Nisbet
Further to this, I've been having a look back through the archives, and I've decided to bring my kernel to a newer version and check again. I'm running woody on 2.4.14SMP at the moment, so I'll bring it up to 2.4.17. The strange thing is that I've never had any problems before. I've seen a few

cfdisk error: Writing partition table to disk...File size limit exceeded

2002-02-18 Thread Dougie Nisbet
I deleted and recreated two partitions on /dev/hda. Things went ok for one of them, but now I find I can't do anything with cfdisk at all. Whenever I try and write the disk partition table, I get the error: Writing partition table to disk...File size limit exceeded The disk is a 40GB I