I have an old external 20GB HD formatted with NTFS. It used to be able to mount in Ubuntu just fine. One day I copied a huge file into it, then suddenly it failed to mount. nitially the message was something like the following:
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Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 13: ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error
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I've been using Ubuntu 10.10 for just under a week. Recently, a partition called 'Data' has disappeared, and all my music and documents along with it. The folder is not to be seen in Places or on my desktop. My only way of finding it is to go to terminal. But when I try to open it there I get an error saying I don't have permission to read it. In Puppy Linux and SliTaz I can easily find the partition and read it. What should I do to bring it back in Ubuntu?
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I have a 60 g internal laptop hard drive, 30g is Windows 7 and 30g is Ubuntu.
When in Ubunutu I can access the window's driver and mount it, however, when I am in windows 7 it only shows the Window's partition.
Is there a simple way I can get the ubunutu partition to show up>
I use dual booting, vista ubuntu 9.10. I have just bought a new 1T external harddisk i have used it on windows to backup some files. Now I want to backup some documents in ubuntu, but the harddisk is not visible, I can't see it, ok I think the term in Linux is that it is not mounted. Is there something else one should do ?
Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf959a599
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I am trying to replace an existing ubuntu installation with the current debian testing release. But when it comes to select partitions to install on none of the existing partitions is visible. I only see my SATA hard drive empty. The existing installation of Windows is still bootable and fdisk as well as cfdisk correctly recognize the partition table while parted (which I assume is used by the installation process; all tools run from a live cd) is not:
[root@localhost liveuser]# cfdisk /dev/sda
cfdisk (util-linux-ng 2.18)
Disk Drive: /dev/sda
Size: 160041885696 bytes, 160.0 GB
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 19457 .....
[root@localhost liveuser]# parted /dev/sda unit s print
Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.
I am not sure what parted's error message means. I can hardly imagine that it complains about the logical partitions with in the extended one. The reasons for the trouble might come frome the fact that sda4 is marked as primary partition (see cfdisk output). If this is the case, how can I repair this?
I've decided to install openSUSE on my Dell PowerEdge SC1420. It's got an onboard Adaptec CERC SATA 2S RAID controller that I've used to set up a RAID 0 using 2x 250GB SATA drives. The SATA RAID is enabled in BIOS (which I've updated to v. A04) and the logical device is set to bootable.
openSUSE sees the logical device and sets up 4 partitions (3x Ext4 and 1x SWAP) and install seems to go okay. I get through to the GNOME desktop and everything seems to be working okay until I reboot. Then I get an error saying that no partition is detected from the CERC 2S device.
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I've spent the entire weekend trying different configurations of raid and partion file systems! I'm on the verge of buying windows 7 and I guess I'll have to if this just isn't going to work.
I am going back to Windows for good. All I need to know is what are the partitions settings so that it will be reconized able in windows. I planning on saving some of my songs and other media that I have collected but I dont want loss all of on some wasted space that isnt readable. So simply put what setting are needed to make a partition visible in windows 7 using gparted.
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View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a 320gb USB hard drive, one partition for my files, one for playing Wii games, and one which I would like to use for an Ubuntu instillation. To do this, I partitioned my disk accordingly using Windows, then booted from the Ubuntu CD to install the OS to my external hard drive partition. It asked me where I wanted to install the boot loader, so I selected the hard drive itself, rather than the specific partition, reasoning that it would scan the hard drive for a boot record. However, when I booted it (with USB boot selected) it simply said "No Operating System found, replace system disk and press enter" or something similar.
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iMac (no internal drive/dead) --------- (Firewire) ------- [[MAC OS X]]
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I routinely use the firewire drive to boot MAC OS X.However, I would like to boot from the linux partition of the USB drive. This linux partition had linux installed on it from a live cd, and during that process, I told the installer to install GRUB on the usb drive (which happened to be /dev/sdd).My question is, how do I get this disk to show up during the iMac option-boot? Currently, only the firewire MAC OS X option shows up. I have read about rEFIT, but that appears to install it to the Mac OS X disk (would that still work?)...Also mentioned was installing rEFIT to the internal EFI system partition, but I don't know if that is wise.
is there a way of sharing an ext3/ext4 formatted partition on an external USB drive between different users (uids) on different Linux machines without creating a group for this purpose, setting the group ownership of the partition to this group and adding each respective user to the group on every machine?This would mean that I need to have root privileges on every machine... which I may not have in some cases.I'm using the partition to store the code I'm developing on Linux and I would like the option to be safe... if possible.I could use a vfat partition but then I have no control of the rw rights + I cannot develop directly in the dir: I would always have to tar.gz the directory, extract, work, tar.gz, copy to the external drive.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've got an external hard drive with one large data partition on it. I also have four computers to connect it to (individually, not at the same time). Three machines are running Slackware and one is running Ubuntu 9.10. I need to be able to just plug the drive into whichever machine, mount it (preferably to the same location each time) and not have to worry about user permissions and such. Do I just chmod 777 all the files and folders or is there a better method for different 'users' to access the same partition? And how about mounting to the same location each time?
Now the second part of my question I'm pretty sure I'm not able to do but just in case..... is there any way to encrypt the information safely and make it compatible with a Windows XP machine?
I am keen to start using Ubuntu and have installed it on one of 4 partitions on my new 1 TB external HD. I got to the reboot stage where I was expecting a new boot screen where I could decide to use either XP or Ubuntu. But there is no mention of Ubuntu just XP and the volume I installed Ubuntu on has disappeared. I can find the other 3 volumes on My Computer.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI can take apart my computer and fix a problem and then re-install the partitions. Hopefully I won't have to re-install, but I want to make backups just in case
-HP laptop with a windows (NTFS) and an Ubuntu (ext3) partition ~ 500GB total
-Iomega 1TB external hard drive partitioned into a 500GB NTFS storage, 250GH BLANK ext3 Linux Backup, and 250GB BLANK NTFS Windows Backup.
I want to copy my windows and linux to their respective 250GB spaces on the External HD.
1.) Can you direct me to places on the net that describes this in detail?
2.) Can I copy a partition while running that partition?
3.) Will copying C:/ in windows over to the external HD copy entire partition?
4.) Can I copy a Laptop partition to a external HD partition that is bigger?
5.) Do I have to use partition manager software or can I do this from terminal/cmd prompt?
I installed ubuntu 10.04 its working fine
but cd rom is not visible
how can i rectify this problem
I am working in a production env & working with SAN team to extend the new hard disk in the production env.I wanted to extend the disk through LVM as theing disk is fully utilized.The disk is added in the production env by the SAN team but how can I see that the disk is added so that I can extend the disk using LVM.Is there any command so that I can see that the disk has been addeed in the OS(redhat).
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to format/repartition a 250 gig external Seagate drive. I get the following error:
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Error creating partition: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_add_partition: device_file=/dev/sdc, start=32256, size=250056705024, type=0x83
Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=250059350016)
MSDOS_MAGIC found
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I've used ubuntu 10.10 in dual boot (wubi) demo mode and I now want to install on a logical partition in an external USB drive. I've got ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso sitting on my ubuntu desktop ready to burn into the external partition already formatted ext4 and bootable flag set. See snapshot attached. I follow the instructions here ..
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to open
System > Administration > Startup Disk Creator
I select the target external partition where I want to install ubuntu. However the button "Make Startup Disk" is not in focus and cannot be clicked to burn ubuntu into the partition. Nor is the text "when starting up from this disk, documents and settings will be: .." with radio buttons in focus. See the snapshot attached.
The button "Erase Disk" is in focus .. but I'm not sure if this should be clicked first or if it would erase the target partition /deb/sdb3 .. or the entire disk /dev/sdb So what step have I missed in basic installation procedure to install into /dev/sdb3? Try as I might I cannot attach a label - RECOVERY - to /dev/sdb9. I'm attaching snapshots of the freshly partitioned external USB disk.
The desktop and icons on my Fedore Core 4 Server is not displayed all of a sudden.I have browsed toapps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktopand had enabled the show_desktop item
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI plugged in my external dvd-r (asus) via usb. It showed me some message on shell, that it has detected the cdrom(although its dvd rom as well but nevermind) and its of ASUS. But how do i know which dev it was associated with in /dev/? Since i had to test something, i plugged it out, and save the output of ls /dev/ > ~/result.txt
after plugging the dvd-rom, i compared the results and was able to find that it was associated with simple cdrom i.e. /dev/cdrom. I wanted to know that is there any command that will tell me which /dev/ file was associated with external dvdrom? i tried to see in the following result
1) df -h ( no results, just the already mounted partitions)
2) fdisk -l ( same as above)
3) dmesg | tail (shown almost the same result as was shown on shell at the time of plugging the dvd)
I'm running 10.04 X86_64. I have this 650 GB External Hard Drive With three partitions: one fat32 and two ext4. Sometimes when I plug the drive in X crashes. I get no response at all from the keyboard but the pointer works. I am able to minimize and maximize windows but i cant close them and i cant click on the top bar. Today the error occurred after I transfered some files from one of the ext4 partitions to a 320 GB External HD(single partition FAT32). I pressed the ctrl + alt+ f1 ( to go to the shell :-/) and this strange lines of code where showing up over and over again:
[XXXXX.XXXXXX] ata1.00:status: {DRDY ERR}
Also the following exception:
[XXXXX.XXXXXX] ata1.00:status: Exception Emask 0x00 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
When i came back to X (ctrl + alt + f7) and unmounted the drives every worked fine.
I have an external hard drive (500GB) that I partitioned and would like to use the second partition to add extra storage space on the computer running 10.04 server (100 GB HD). /dev/sdc2 is the partition I would like to add via LVM to the 100GB HD; dev/sdc1 contains data I already use.
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root@SERVER1:# blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="3fbfabe1-7173-4f83-9c9d-08effabd0a25" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda5: UUID="Wq94xh-ZDhl-XG0Q-X4Ic-AxUZ-A6Hr-TQTZYx" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/mapper/SERVER1-root: UUID="3f0e70c2-ade1-438f-97fb-744660693554" TYPE="ext4"
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I have a 320gb USB hard drive, one partition for my files, one for playing Wii games, and one which I would like to use for an Ubuntu instillation.o do this, I partitioned my disk accordingly using Windows, then booted from the Ubuntu CD to install the OS to my external hard drive partition. It asked me where I wanted to install the boot loader, so I selected the hard drive itself, rather than the specific partition, reasoning that it would scan the hard drive for a boot record.However, when I booted it (with USB boot selected) it simply said "No Operating System found, replace system disk and press en
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have an old external 20GB HD formatted with NTFS. It used to be able to mount in Ubuntu just fine.One day I copied a huge file into it, then suddenly it failed to mount. Initially the message was something like the following:
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Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 13: ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error
Failed to read NTFS $Bitmap: Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a
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As you can see the above list doesn't contain /dev/sdb. But when I plug the external HD, the connection light always turns green.If possible I want to save the data and reformat it into NTFS again, but in order to do that at least I have to get /dev/sdb enlisted don't I ?
I'm wandering if it is possible to set up a partition on a laptop's HD so that if I use a USB cable between it and another device, the partition would appear as an external HD on the device.
Old Mac laptops used to have the option at boot-time of sharing the hardrive via firewire (they might still have it, have no clue) I'm looking for something similar, but on a laptop with Linux running on a different partition.
I've got a new machine with an Nvidia GeForce 210 graphics card with HDMI output. I'm trying to get sound to go out that HDMI cable, but although the device shows up on lspci, I can't get it acknowledged by aplay -l, which lists the audio devices known to the audio driver.
lspci shows (in part): 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1) The first is the motherboard audio, and it works fine. The second (I assume) is the graphics card with HDMI. But aplay -l lists only the motherboard analog and S/PDIF outputs:
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I can't see how I'm going to select a device that the drivers think isn't there. how to make that device visible to the sound drivers? I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 with a 2.6.32 stock kernel. The Nvidia driver version is 195.36.24.
i've read enough posts on this issue but i'm actually not getting how to configure user agent so that my distro icon can be shown instead of penguins' head.. i usually catch a thing so quickly and i've no doubt about my technical skills but this is the first time i'm unable to figure out such a small issue... i'm using fedora15 and firefox5.0..
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