Re: change partitions

2007-08-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 11:13:42PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >that partition. With it unmounted, run e2fsck -cc on it. > > > >The -cc means that a non-distructive read/write badblocks test will run > >on it. With modern drives you should not actually find any b

Re: change partitions

2007-08-19 Thread jupiter . hce
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: The 'partitions' are only numbers in a table that OS's refer to to see what block starts the next partition and where it ends. I'm assuming that your problem with the partition is actually with the filesystem on that partition. With it unmounted, run e2fsck -cc on it.

Re: change partitions

2007-08-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 11:36:41AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Should I use fdisk to remove the window partition or if there is a better > partition tool I can use in Debian? You could try parted or the graphical frontends qtparted and gparted. You could also use partimage by booting wit

Re: change partitions

2007-08-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 11:36:41AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I installed Debian on a machine with several other pations (window, > RH9.1, etc). During the installation, it indicated one of my linux > partition had some problems (it is formated by ext3, but can only write > to the disk

change partitions

2007-08-18 Thread jupiter . hce
Hi, I installed Debian on a machine with several other pations (window, RH9.1, etc). During the installation, it indicated one of my linux partition had some problems (it is formated by ext3, but can only write to the disk with used space only higher than 70%). Now I am going to fix that part