Re: hd probleme on fedora

From: priou (prioualexandre_at_yahoo.fr)
Date: 10/30/04

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    To: Jonathan Berry <berryja@gmail.com>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:26:21 +0200

    thank at all, but the fdisk of my fedora core 2 don't want understand ....

    i break my HD with my CD of redhat 7.3

    now i have 2 partition ...

    somewhere, i send this bug at redhat ...

    thank

    alexandre

    Le vendredi 29 Octobre 2004 07:22, Jonathan Berry a écrit :
    > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:30:18 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings
    >
    > <cummings@kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
    > > OK, you've created 1 new partition, 80GB in size.
    > > Now you have to run mkfs on this partition. You've created it, but it
    > > contains no data yet, worse, you're probably reading the *old* 20GB data
    > > left over from the previous partitioning that you destroy.
    >
    > If you want two partitions, run fdisk again and enter +40G at the prompt:
    > > Dernier cylindre ou +taille or +tailleM ou +tailleK (1-158816, default
    > > 158816):
    >
    > Then add primary 2 with the defaults. By the way, there is no need to
    > reboot between deleting the old partitions and creating the new ones.
    > In fact, you can do this without even exiting fdisk. Just delete the
    > 80 GB partition and create the 2 new 40 GB ones, if that is what you
    > want now.
    >
    > > You need to understand that partitioning only draws the lines on the
    > > disk where the files system will live. It does not re-write the
    > > superblocks, directories, or data between those lines. That is the job
    > > of mkfs. (Or in your case, mkfs.ext3 if you want an ext3 file system.)
    >
    > Yes, this is correct. Interesting result, I must say; I've never
    > tried that : ). The command I use is:
    > # mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1
    > to make the file system on the first partition. Repeat with /dev/hdb2
    > if you go with two partitions. This is the same as mkfs.ext3 (ext3 is
    > ext2 with journalling, the -j option). Note that this will ERASE the
    > data that is currently on the disk. It seems this is what you want,
    > but just making sure.
    > I don't know if you could somehow run fsck on the disk with the new
    > partition table and have it fix the filesystem to take up the new
    > partition space. Anyone know if this is theoretically possible, out
    > of curiosity?
    >
    > Jonathan 

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