Since Mac OS X, runs a BSD Linux at the core I think that this is the correct place to ask about this, but I need cfdisk to make some ext2 and swap partitions on some Compact Flash and old HDs without needing to download any LiveCD. There is any cfdisk that I can use on my Mac?
View 1 Repliesi tried making a Linux window shared swap partition using cfdisk and printed the result to the partition table and then immediately restarted my machine but the boot loader showed me there was an error it could not mount the boot partition, i use mepis what could be the problem?
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View 10 Replies View RelatedMy largest partition is currently NTFS, which I thought I could use as my Linux home directory. But when mounted to /home, "useradd -m" refuses to add new user directories. So I want to keep 10GB of that partition for Win/Linux documents and such, and use the other 42 GB for Linux users.
My question is rather easy for most of you: using cfdisk, can I just delete that partition, add two new partitions, then write the table to disk? Right now there's no data on that partition but writing the partition table seems risky--I don't want to mess with any of the other partitions (even though I can just reinstall Linux).
I would like to format a pen drive to NTFS, so that a windows machine can use it, but Im unsure of the filesystem option's in Cfdisk. These are the options:
07 HPFS/NTFS
86 NTFS volume set
87 NTFS volume set
I think 07 is probably the right option, but as always when I dont know something, I like to get some advice from LQ members.
Although I use Slackware for many years I never understood something. During the creation of partitions, using cfdisk, there are 2 choices. "Beginning" and "End". What's the difference between these two choices? Does this have to do with older Lilo versions?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedSince Mac OS X, runs a BSD Linux at the core I think that this is the correct place to ask about this, but I need cfdisk to make some ext2 and swap partitions on some Compact Flash and old HDs without needing to download any LiveCD. There is any cfdisk that I can use on my Mac?
View 2 Replies View RelatedDell Mini 9 Netbook with Windows XP OS died. It has a 16GB SSD. I was in the middle of installing HP printer software when it shutdown unexpectedly. Then upon turning it back on it says something about a media test failure, check cable and then Operating System Not Found. I've been able to boot using Damn Small Linux using an external cd drive.
When I type 'fdisk -l' I get:
Disk /dev/hda: 15.4 GB, 15408046080 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1873 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk /dev/hda doesn't contain a valid partition table
My wife has lots of pictures on the drive that she would like so I took it to a couple data recovery places and they were charging anywhere from $1000 just for jpegs up to $2600 for all files retrieved. That's more than I can budget for this. So my wife accepted the fact that the pictures are gone, but I figured I might as well try what I can because we have nothing more to lose.
I thought I'd try to get a hard drive cubby and attach it through USB to a working PC, but apparently Dell's SSDs are proprietary and the design is not accommodated. I thought maybe just the partition table information got erased somehow, so I tried using gparted and it found nothing. Whenever I use cfdisk and create partitions, I quit cfdisk after writing and it still says there is no valid partition table. I have no other ideas as to what I can do.
I've just synchronized my slackware64-current mirror, iso burned, booting, starting cfdisk, creating a partition, and I'm not able to set the partition type to `Linux Raid Autodetect` (FD) or any other, that needs 2 characters to be entered in cfdisk -> Type.Cfdisk alows only one character to be entered ("F" or any other).
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI want to do partitioning with "cfdisk" in a virtual machine name is VMware that has Ubuntu, is for a project of LFS so when I try to call the "cfdisk" and an error flag:
"FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive Press any key to exit cfdisk"
"Press any key to exit cfdisk"
Then try "fdisk" and I get nothing of what I need. Then with "sudo cfdisk" and I went another different error:
"FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder"
"Press any key to exit cfdisk"
I want to install Arch Linux on my desktop, it is going to be a dual boot with Windows. I booted into the installation CD, but when I started cfdisk to partition my hard drive it gave me the following error: FATAL ERROR: Primairy parititon 1, partition ends in the final partial cylinder.The QuestionHow can I troubleshoot and fix this?Additional details
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