Re: [SLE] Changing Installation Source brings to filesystem crash
- From: Sergey Mkrtchyan <crusoe@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 00:34:33 +0400
Lonn wrote:
Your message to me was HTML format, so makes it difficult to properly manage it and send it to the list. But above is best I could do, hurriedly.
The believe the list is for learning, helping, sharing development issues, etc. I don't believe you are [OT] by any stretch of the imagination. Maybe you have a tough go in explaining your situation because you don't know what others might need to know to get a focus on possibilities for recovery.
I see some new information. Your recovery says your Linux partition is full.
You cannot operate with a full file system. And - if that partition is
corrupt (more likely "full") how can you copy anything into it? So the file
system must be alright, but I haven't any idea what the result might be of
copying the distro into your Linux partition. It is strange that recovery
says 6.7 GB is free and disk magic says "full." Can you resolve that -
explain it?
I think there is no reason for him to be full after a fresh install. After installing SuSE last time, I left it as is, without copying anything to it. Besides it lets me to copy files to my Linux partition(which it shows to be full from Windows' Partition Magic). So now it loads normally and so does GRUB...but I am sure that after changing the installation source it will crash again.
Are all of your partitions ACTIVE?
No! I just noticed from that Partition Magic that under the Status column there is only active my C: partition for Windows. All the rest(D: windows, Linux EXT2 and Linux Swap) are 'None'.Should I make them all Active? I uploaded a screenshot of that Partition Magic window, if you'd like you can take a look on it(there is all my partitions with Type, Status, etc.). Here's the link http://users.freenet.am/~crusoe/screenshot.jpg <http://users.freenet.am/%7Ecrusoe/screenshot.jpg>
Do you have two hard disks or is D: a logical disk?
Altogether do you have about a 40 GB disk?
I have got only one 40 Gb Hard Drive, so D:, Linux Ext2 and Linux Swap are Logical(that's also I see from the screenshot)
It seems all of your Linux is in one partition, except for swap. You will
find a better way someday, as each partition may be treated separately in
recovery and mount. Having all in one partition is not the best way to
operate.
Yes all my linux is on the one partition, so in future I should have at last two partitions as EXT2 and install Linux on them?
I think you can "defrag" XP when it is on FAT32. So "defrag" your XP and see how much of it is unused. Then you may find that you have recoverable space that could be used for a fresh Linux OS.
Ok, I am already defragmenting one of my windows disks. This night I'll defragment two my windows disks C: and D: and will free as much space as I can from them.
If you use disk magic without understanding where you are going, "all" can
be lost. Does disk magic have a "resize" program to resize or shrink a
partition? Maybe a third party prog is needed. Can find some assistance from
a colleague at your workplace. That is highly recommended, as any partition
changes can be *fatal* if done incorrectly. Your objective is to have room
for an install that does not use any of the space of the crashed Linux.
Ok...Partition Magic allows me to resize the partitions which are for Windows, but there is no such an option for the Linux Ext3 and Linux Swap...though I think when I decrease a size of windows C and D disk the one for Linux automatically will Increase. Anyway I'll consult with a guy from the lab, and only then will go on with this.
In that regard, maybe you cannot do an autoinstall, but must customize a bit.
GRUB must be configured to look for the "new" Linux OS, else it will
continue to find the old one and the "16" error. It is possible that the
error is in GRUB and not in the file system - but chance is only slight. You
can clean up the older Linux, later, after thorough investigation.
No I think there is no need to do a fresh install. I have already formatted the old Linux yesterday and done a fresh install. So now it is working perfect(but shows full partition from Windows) and there is everything is alright with GRUB. The problem is that I don't know how to copy (or where to copy) that DVD and how to change my Installation Source for him not to crash again.
I think of copying that DVD to another partition(for example Windows' D:) and configure YaST in such a way to see the Installation Source from my D: partition. If the problem was in disk space when I copy DVD to my Linux partition now it shouldn't appear again, but I'm not sure. What do you think?
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