I was wondering if anyone knew why Linux numbers partitions the way it does. For instance, I formatted and reinstalled Ubuntu and allowed it to create the partitions automagically. It created a primary (sda1) and an extended (sda2) with the swap partition within (sda5). Are sda1-4 restricted to primary partitions only or is there something else afoot?

Partitions 1-4 are restricted to primary partitions only.

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Thank you, Kyle.

O.K., here's my dilemma: I have Karmic installed on a 4gb flash drive (first partition is 3.52gb ext4, remainder is swap). This runs great and I am aware of the limited write-cycles of flash media, but for what I need, this works great. Now, I have a 8gb flash drive onto which I'd like to clone this install. I have tried booting with a live CD and copying the primary partition with gparted and that _kinda_works in that, after I run grub-install it will try to boot, but ultimately fail hanging at "assuming drive cache: write through" on sda1. When I change to another terminal, I am able to login and reboot, but subsequent reboots result in hanging with a cursor just before it would show the user list.

An alternative method I found had me use dd to dump the original to an iso then load the iso onto the new drive using dd again. That results in similar problems and, at one point, I was getting an error that it couldn't read .ICEauthority (didn't think to write that down when it came up).

So, I ask the knowledge base that is the jax-lug list, what method would you suggest to clone a flash drive?

I should also mention that I read about Clonezilla's live CD having problems with ext4, so I haven't tried that method, as yet.

Hey guys, new member here. Just wanted to give a quick introduction.

I'm an intermediate Linux user, just moved here from Knoxville, TN not long ago. The LUG there wasn't very active (mailing list only), so I'd forgotten to check for a LUG here when I moved. I am very pleasantly surprised to see that the LUG here is very active and so far seems friendly.

Nice to meet you all, hope to see you next meeting if I can manage to get my work schedule traded.

Hi -
(This may be a duplicate post. Please excuse)
This is a pretty basic question for you, I'm sure, but I've been googling around with no luck. Maybe I'm searching for the wrong thing...

We're running a generic box (MicroExpress) with Redhat Valhalla 7.3. The box serves a message board. We've had a couple of crashes in the past few days. The message board vendor suggests a hardware heating/cooling issue.

Using command line, how would we determine if in fact the hardware has a H/C problem?

Thanks,
Dorothy