Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
Actually ...
On 2/17/06, Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't see any reason cfdisk needed to write to his /home
partition, even to rewrite the geometry information.
cfdisk should not have changed anything -- but I believe the system is
confused now because the client has changed the hda5/6 to hda7/8 ?
Only in his entry in fstab, I think. I asked him to try a direct
mount, and that didn't work either.
Here's my partition table now, in a couple different formats:
cfdisk 2.11u
Originally this was more or less a Debian issue but I feel it is
migrating toward a Knoppix/toolset problem -- I would be of very
Well, KNOPPIX is Debian, more or less.
little help -- I have never used Knoppix and have heard bad things
about cfdisk -- so I must bow out.
Really? What have you heard? I know there were many times I was
frustrated by MSDOS fdisk insisting on overwriting the BR on
partitions which really didn't need it. Got me into the habit
of always backing up my MBR *and* the BRs of all partitions
I wanted to save before fiddling with the PT.
Sorry.
Not a problem. You're a volunteer. You help as much as you
feel inclined to.
I'm sure no one would fault you for that.
I was hoping there was someone who knows what the layout of
the "geometry" record is, and whether we can figure out what
got clobbered, maybe repair it.
Mike
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