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Mike Wright | 1 Aug 2010 01:16
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Re: how not to initialize HD

Darr wrote:
> I agree that 3 primaries don't need to be used before an extended partition 
> is created for logical volumes (I've done 1 primary and 1 extended before, 
> too), but why is there no /sda4 ?
> 
> i.e. If the extended partition was /sda2 would the first logical volume 
> *still* be /sda5? 
> 

Yes.  1 thru 4 are reserved as primary.  The first partition within the 
extended will always be #5.
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JB | 1 Aug 2010 01:36
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Darr <darr <at> core.com> writes:

> 
> I agree that 3 primaries don't need to be used before an extended partition 
> is created for logical volumes (I've done 1 primary and 1 extended before, 
> too), but why is there no /sda4 ?
> 
> i.e. If the extended partition was /sda2 would the first logical volume 
> *still* be /sda5? 
> 
Hi,
this is my system:
# cfdisk
                         cfdisk (util-linux-ng 2.17.2)

                              Disk Drive: /dev/sda
                        Size: 40007761920 bytes, 40.0 GB
              Heads: 255   Sectors per Track: 63   Cylinders: 4864

    Name        Flags	   Part Type  FS Type          [Label]        Size (MB)
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    sda1        Boot        Primary   NTFS             [^B]            21436.05*
    sda2                    Primary   Linux ext3       [F13]            8388.61*
    sda3                    Primary   Linux ext3       [F11]		7605.21*
    sda5                    Logical   Linux swap / Solaris		1501.84*
    sda6                    Logical   Linux ext2       [save]		1076.07*
...

# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
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James McKenzie | 1 Aug 2010 01:43
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Re: newb question

D. VITELLIUS REGULUS wrote:
> Thanks for the tip wine wmmv it works great
> Investigator, Embassy Investigations.
>   
Any further questions on Wine need to be address to the wine-users 
mailing list.

You might want to edit your signature line while you are at it to 
include your proper name as well.

James McKenzie

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Steven Stern | 1 Aug 2010 01:45
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Re: Best way to replace a drive with a clone

On 07/31/2010 03:21 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 12:59 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
>> According to the SMART stats, the single drive in my Fedora server is
>> starting to fail.  Rather than backup, do a clean install, and rebuild,
>> I'd like to try to clone the existing drive to a new one, then swap in
>> the new one.
>>
>> What are the restrictions on doing this and the best way to accomplish
>> it?  I have the Clonezilla Live CD that I use for backup.  Will that do
>> it?
>>
>> Or will a straight dd do it?
>>       add new drive as PATA slave /dev/sdb
>>       dd -if /dev/sda -of /dev/sdb
>>       remove /dev/sda
>>       change the jumpers on /dev/sdb to match what was /dev/sda
>>       reboot
>>
>> In the dd procedure, I'm not sure what to do if sdb is larger than sda.
>
> What I normally do is boot the system e.g. with the Fedora install CD in
> rescue mode, which automatically mounts the old system, and then I
>
>   1. partition new drive
>   2. format partitions on new drive
>   3. mount new filesystem tree in e.g. /mnt/newroot
>   4. run
>       # rsync -au /mnt/sysimage/ /mnt/newroot/
>   5. edit fstab in new etc to reflect new partitions
>   6. install grub on new drive
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Paul Cartwright | 1 Aug 2010 01:54

Re: how not to initialize HD

On Sat July 31 2010, JB wrote:
> # fdisk -l
>  
> Can you do this now ? If so, give me the display.
> # cfdisk -Ps
>
> In any case, reboot your system to make sure the new partition table was
> filed.
rebooted..

> Return to your Linux again and your terminal.
> Check again and tell me what works (give me displays).

> # cfdisk -Ps
>
> By the way, there was a post from Robert Nichols regarding my concerns and
> that will be addressed later on by me.
> JB

> # fdisk -l

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        4462    35840983+   7  HPFS/NTFS 
/dev/sda3            4718       12162    59793409    5  Extended
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda5            4718        5961     9989120   83  Linux
/dev/sda6            5962        8094    17133291   83  Linux
/dev/sda7           11919       12162     1951744   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8            8095       11918    30716248+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
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Thomas Taylor | 1 Aug 2010 02:02
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Re: Grub and logical partitions

On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:57:24 +0200
Michael Schwendt <mschwendt <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:16:10 +0200, Timothy wrote:
> 
> > But what puzzles me - and none of the gurus in this thread
> > seem to have answered my question -
> 
> But of course! There was only one question mark in your message,
> and the question in front of it has been answered.
> 
> > is that I can do it interactively,
> > but when I put exactly the same commands into grub.conf
> > they do not work.
> > 
> > WHY IS THIS?
> 
> PEBKAC?
> 
> > I'm using the standard grub in a standard up-to-date Fedora-13.
> > 
> > >> > But I found that I could in fact boot from /dev/sda5
> > >> > if I used grub interactively, starting with
> > >> >   root (hd0,4)
> > >> > then using tab to look for kernel and initrd
> > >> > and finally booting.
> 
> Why don't you load the grub.conf from /dev/sda5 instead of loading
> kernel and initrd manually?
>
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Paul Cartwright | 1 Aug 2010 02:03

Re: how not to initialize HD

On Sat July 31 2010, JB wrote:
/dev/sda1   *           1        4462    35840983+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            4463        4717     2048287+   e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)
/dev/sda3            4718       12162    59793409    5  Extended
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda5            4718        5961     9989120   83  Linux
/dev/sda6            5962        8094    17133291   83  Linux
/dev/sda7           11919       12162     1951744   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8            8095       11918    30716248+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> Note that fdisk shows Extended partition as sda4, but cfdisk skips it. It
> is a matter of formatting the displays by both. The layouts were done by
> these Linux utilities.

/dev/sda5 is / and /dev/sda6 is /home. Can I just delete sda3 & sda5 without 
touching /home on sda6? or will deleting sda3 remove everything... If so, 
that wouldn't both me that much.
What i really want to end up with is XP on /dev/sda1 and Fedora on SOMETHING..

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Timothy Murphy | 1 Aug 2010 02:05
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Re: Grub and logical partitions

Michael Schwendt wrote:

>> I can do it interactively,
>> but when I put exactly the same commands into grub.conf
>> they do not work.
>> 
>> WHY IS THIS?
> 
> PEBKAC?

What exactly does that mean?
As far as I can see, no-one has answered my question
(the one above).

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JD | 1 Aug 2010 19:22
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burning fedor dvd iso using wodim

  I burned the fedora 12 dvd iso twice using wodim.
Both times, it wrote:
3738959872 bytes (3.7 GB) copied, 511.982 s, 7.3 MB/s

whereas the size of the actual iso is
3738935296 bytes - a difference of 24576 extra bytes written,
and this in spite of providing the wodim argument -nopad

Is this "normal" behaviour of dvd burners?

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JB | 1 Aug 2010 02:31
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Paul Cartwright <ale <at> pcartwright.com> writes:

> 
> On Sat July 31 2010, JB wrote:
> /dev/sda1   *           1        4462    35840983+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2            4463        4717     2048287+   e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)
> /dev/sda3            4718       12162    59793409    5  Extended
> Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/sda5            4718        5961     9989120   83  Linux
> /dev/sda6            5962        8094    17133291   83  Linux
> /dev/sda7           11919       12162     1951744   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda8            8095       11918    30716248+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> > Note that fdisk shows Extended partition as sda4, but cfdisk skips it. It
> > is a matter of formatting the displays by both. The layouts were done by
> > these Linux utilities.
> 
> /dev/sda5 is / and /dev/sda6 is /home. Can I just delete sda3 & sda5 without 
> touching /home on sda6? or will deleting sda3 remove everything... If so, 
> that wouldn't both me that much.
> What i really want to end up with is XP on /dev/sda1 and Fedora on SOMETHING..
> 
Paul,
this is your new layout (after removing sda2), please use it from now on:
> # fdisk -l

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        4462    35840983+   7  HPFS/NTFS 
/dev/sda3            4718       12162    59793409    5  Extended
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda5            4718        5961     9989120   83  Linux
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