I want to use an eSata enclosure which will combine 2 drives into one so I'd be presented with 4TB.
Can 32-bit 9.04 cope with this as one partition or would I have to create multiple partitions on it?
will going from 10.04 desktop to 10.10 netbook mean i have to reinstall everything? also, does the netbook version support mounting of networked drives?
View 3 Replies View RelatedLast month I found an old Seagate Hornet tape drive (STT20000A) with 2 TR-5 tapes at a thrift store. After sitting on a shelf at my place until last week I put it in an old system and installed Debian 5 on it. After a long time of working on it and never finding any useful help newer than 2007 I'm about to put it on eBay. So, here's a few questions:
Can this work in Debian 5 or should I put 4 or older on the system? If I put older linux on it, could I still get ide-scsi module working? apparently it has be obsolete for some time. The main problem is that it locks up the system when I try to write to it.
Have Opensuse disabled support for Iomega external parport zip drives? I can mount the zip drive under Debian Lenny running the 2.6.26 kernel without any problems. Under Opensuse 10.3 (installed) and Opensuse 11.2 (liveCD) I can't access the drive. Opensuse doesn't recognize it.
All of which is odd. When I installed 10.3, the zip was seen an configured in fstab as /dev/sdc4 mounted at /media/zip. It worked fine for a while, then quit. Now, /dev/sdc4 doesn't exist. Kde control center says (hardware - partitions) says is there but not mounted. Hwinfo doesn't show it; modprobe imm does nothing.
I'm at a loss for ways and means to get Opensuse to recognize my zip drive.
I have an IBM xSeries server with a 120gb IDE hd. I would like to use it for mail and web server at work. Obviously, I need a bigger HD. The only thing is I can't find a big (1TB) IDE HD all I can find are SATAs and this server's motherboard does not support SATA drives.
View 3 Replies View RelatedAs you are probably aware that WD released new drives ranging from 1TB to 2TB with native support for 4K sector size. And as most of stuff written online is regarding Windows and their support for 4K, my question is has anyone already started to use it under linux?
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I'm thinking about getting one of these drives:
1TB WD10EARS
or
1.5TB WD15EARS
I'm using Debian Lenny so my questions are: is fdisk automatically recognizes that that drive is 4K drive, or it totally ignores it and partition is as 512byte one? In windows if no 4K support is available it would emulate it and performance would be downgraded. Do I need to enable any specific components in kernel so 4K drive is supported? I wanted to make sure there would be no data loss if I select 4K partition type.
My wife (naturally without consulting me) purchased a WDC "My PassPort" portable usb drive to backup her Windows 7 machine at work. It has an NTFS partition and should be accessable from a Linux box, but she choose to password protect the drive. This apparently requires an executable to run before the drive is unlocked. WDC has provided Windows and Mac versions of their unlock utility, but when I called told they said WDC doesn't support Linux.
It seems odd to me. Are we such a small community that they just don't care? I could remove the password protection and it would probably work with linux. I own a WDC "My Book" external usb/firewire drive that works fine under linux. Just curious why they don't care enough about us to have an linux unlock program. While on the subject I will mention that this drive comes preformated with a virtual CD as one of the partitions. This is a new feature to me. I have not yet attempted to connect via linux to see what happens.
I am planning on dual-booting Windows XP and Ubuntu on a new laptop, and because I have a program that lets me mount an ext2 filesystem on Windows, I was thinking of installing Ubuntu with ext2 instead of ext3. I am concerned, however, that it might open up a security risk for my Ubuntu partition. Would this cause a problem? (In case it's relevant, I use AVG Free antivirus in Windows.)
View 7 Replies View Relatedupgraded from karmic through update managerANDnone of of my external drives cd drive or flash drives are picked upad to go back to karmic and will remain there for a whil
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm breaking into the OS drive side with RAID-1 now. I have my server set up with a pair of 80 GB drives, mirrored (RAID-1) and have been testing the fail-over and rebuild process. Works great physically failing out either drive. Great! My next quest is setting up a backup procedure for the OS drives, and I want to know how others are doing this.
Here's what I was thinking, and I'd love some feedback: Fail one of the disks out of the RAID-1, then image it to a file, saved on an external disk, using the dd command (if memory serves, it would be something like "sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=backupfilename.img") Then, re-add the failed disk back into the array. In the event I needed to roll back to one of those snapshots, I would just use the "dd" command to dump the image back on to an appropriate hard disk, boot to it, and rebuild the RAID-1 from that.
Does that sound like a good practice, or is there a better way? A couple notes: I do not have the luxury of a stack of extra disks, so I cannot just do the standard mirror breaks and keep the disks on-hand, and using something like a tape drive is also not an option.
I recently had issues with the latest version of the Linux Kernels and I got that fixed but ever since that has happened none of my Drives will mount and they aren't even recognized.
View 1 Replies View Relatedi TOTALLY ****ed up my windows bootmgr, and, in some way, the linux partition too. I'd like to format the windows partition, but as all my info stays intact I'd like to conserve it that way. The only way I can think of, is to make a new ext2 partition on the same HDD y have windows ( I only have one HDD, so... ) and save the information there . Wich is the correct way to do so, without losing all my software and/or information??
Other details:
* Rright now, i don't have ubuntu installed on my pc ( I'm using a live cd ).
* I'm using ( or was ) win 7.
* The only partitions on my HDD is an ntfs ( 60 GB ) and an unallocated ( 240 GB )
I have a installation of Ubuntu on a flash drive that I just finished updating, etc. I noticed that it ran surprisingly slow during all my updates and software installations. I looked into it further and found out that for Flash Drive installations, it is recommended to use ext2 due to it's speed and lack of journaling (to limit the amount of writes to the disk).
I REALLY don't want to spend all the time and effort I have just spentt on reinstalling from scratch! I'd like to convert my partition filesystem from ReiserFS to ext2. How can I do this?
Can I backup all the information, do a new installation using the LiveCD, and restore the backup? What program can I use, and which directories do I need to backup?
I use 8GB USB sticks for backup of Ubuntu 10.04. I have had a variety of problems with ext3 format (security tar file not readable, etc) and have reformatted to ext2, so far without a problem.
But - am I missing something by not using ext3 (or even ext4)? Should I be sticking with ext3 and try to resolve the problems - bearing in mind that as the USB stick is my backup I need it to be secure!
I wanted to access my Ubuntu partitions on my OS X side.
First things first, I downloaded MacFuse from: [url] Then, I went to [url]
And got their software. From there I mounted the .DMG files and ran the installers. I was able to get all of the software installed and running with no reboot required. Then I loaded the MacFuse control panel, enabled beta, and updated. NOTE: I am unsure if you need the beta for this to work as I did not try without it! Upon the completion of the update, I fired up terminal.
Now, I needed to know exactly which partition my /home/ was located on, so I typed:
Code:
From this, and my basic knowledge of how I setup my Ubuntu partitions, I was able to tell that my 68 GB disk, disk0s4, was my Ubuntu /Home. Then I created a directory in my /Volumes folder to mount the EXT partition to by typing:
Code:
Now that I knew what the disk was and had the all software installed, all I needed to do was mount disk0s4. This is accomplished with:
Code:
Then, I went into the Finder and saw a volume on the left side of the window called "disk0s4". In there are all my files from my home directory of Ubuntu that I can easily access. Great success!
The system that all of this was done on is a Dell Min 10v dual booting between OS X 10.6.6 and Ubuntu 10.10.
i have recently setup and installed Ubuntu 9.04 on a virtulal drive usingVMWare 6.04, installed the desktop gui as well, I need to add other drives for data and loggng, which I did in the VMWare side. I can see the 2 drives in ubuntu, but can not access them, I get he unable to mount location when I try. How can resolve this please as I need these to virtual drives to be used as data drives.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've used it once before but got fed up with the boot asking me everytime I turned my laptop on because I wasn't using it enough. I have Windows 7 on drive C . I want to keep it on drive C. I have several 1.5TB+ drives, and one of them is not being used. I want to dedicate it to Ubuntu, and be able to do a dual boot with my Windows 7 install. Is this possible? If it is, what about when this drive is not connected to my laptop? Will that mess up the boot process?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI run an upgrade and an update on a lucid lynx beta 2. --- got no problems. but about the filesystems i have some questions because it seems for me that at every system boot the system will run an fsck. somtimes it's shown up, somtimes not. but in /var/log/messages and in syslog
I have always following messages ( occured in beta 2 too ).
But first before i continue - here my disk layout:
And here my filesystem types:
This is my problem because those values are seems to be static ! ( note: this partiton is mounted but not in use ) and last not least: the drive is an external usb scsi disk. but on the other side lucid lynx is running fine on my box.
I have a HP laptop which can support 1600x900. But after I install ubuntu 9.10 on it, it can only support up to 1280x700. My laptop has a Nvidia graphics card. And i am using GNOME as my desktop environment.
View 1 Replies View Relatedso I setup a raid ten system and I was wondering what that difference between the active and spare drives is ? if I have 4 active drives then 2 the two stripes are then mirrored right?
root@wolfden:~# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid0] [raid10]
md1 : active raid10 sda2[0] sdd2[3] sdc2[2] sdb2[1]
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I am building a home server that will host a multitude of files; from mp3s to ebooks to FEA software and files. I don't know if RAID is the right thing for me. This server will have all the files that I have accumulated over the years and if the drive fails than I will be S.O.L. I have seen discussions where someone has RAID 1 setup but they don't have their drives internally (to the case), they bought 2 separate external hard drives with eSata to minimize an electrical failure to the drives. (I guess this is a good idea)I have also read about having one drive then using a second to rsync data every week. I planned on purchasing 2 enterprise hard drives of 500 MB to 1 GB but I don't have any experience with how I should handle my data
View 10 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 RelatedI would like to know if it is normal to experience 10MB/s data transfer rates during copying between partitions on my local hard drives (Toshiba 250GB 5400rpm SATA) while having three times faster (30MB/s) transfer rates between local partitions and USB drives (Kingston 8GB).
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have recently bought a Toshiba 1TB external USB disk.
I have formatted it using gparted to ext2 and Debian see's it but gives me an error "unable to mount volume" with some extra stuff about programs shouldn't disconnect shared drives.
I can mount it ok by creating a folder called usbdisk and the mount command "mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /home/mike/usbdisk" and it works fine, but I have to do this everytime I start the machine.
Does anyone know what exactly I should put into a setup file to make the machine do this everytime , but only if its there.
As I'm not very clued up on bash scripting , I'm assuming it something along these lines:
How would I add this at boot?? Would I add it to the end of "init.d/rc" ?
I had to install a new disk drive in my PC a week ago because the old drive died. The new drive is a 160 gig drive. First I installed Win XP with S/P 3 and everything was fine. Then I installed Ubuntu 8.04 and the troubles began. Ubuntu resized the Windows partition down to 8.81 gig and used the other 137.44 gig for Ubuntu. When I booted into Windows I started getting nasty little messages about "not enough disk space". SOOoooo....... I booted using the Ubuntu install CD and ran "sudo gparted" in a terminal window. I tried to resize the ext2 partition but got an unknown error.
Then I ran fixmbr in Windows to get rid of grub. Then I tried running gparted again to delete the ext2 partition. Got an error that said "can't delete the partition because it's mounted". So I tried to unmount the partition but got a message that the command "unmount" could not be found. After that I installed Partition Magic in Windows and tried that. It sees the ext2 partition but says it's unsupported when I try to delete or resize it.
I ran fdisk but it doesn't see the Linux partitions either, so I can't delete them in that program. I finally tried to format the disk but now I have a 9 gig drive with nothing on it. How do I get those Linux partitions off the drive so I will have a 160 gig drive that I can start over with? I've spent 6 days this week reinstalling XP and all of my programs, and now everything is gone because Ubuntu decided to be a disk hog.
I would like to convert my /tmp and /boot partitions from Ext3 to Ext2 on my Arch Linux setup. I don't see any use in having journaling for either partition. I want to make sure that I have the right steps lined up so could someone verify that this is correct (from a live cd):
Code:
#sudo tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sda7
#sudo e2fsck /dev/sda7
#sudo tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sda5
#sudo e2fsck /dev/sda5
I then edit /etc/fstab to reflect these changes (ext3 to ext2 for both lines)
Does it matter what order I do it in (/dev/sda7 is /tmp and /dev/sda5 is /boot).
is there any way to delete a filesystem?
Odd question I know and this is more out of curiosity then out of real usage.
Background:
I have a bit of a script that creates a xen image and within I check if the partition that is given contains a filesystem and if this filesystem has inodes in use. (This is all under ext2). After one run of the script which I had to abort there was a filesystem on the partition and my script refused to create a new one. Simple solution was just to create a new filesystem on the very partition and the script went on. I also thought of recreating the partition but this would not be very applicable on a running system with the partition on the same disk like root paritition.
So I'm looking for a way to delete a filesystem or at least set it's used inode number to zero.
how can i locate an Ext2 or Ext3 file system by using the terminal?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI had a 40G vfat drive from WIN98 and I used parted to remove the partition, then create a new partition with an ext2 filetype When in parted, and do print...
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(parted) p
Model: ATA QUANTUM FIREBALL (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdd: 40.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
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I want to convert my swap space 8GB to usable formatHere is the output of sudo fdisk -l command$sudo fdisk -lDisk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylindersUnits = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytesDisk identifier: 0x26af26ae
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2295 18434556 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 2296 9728 59705572+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
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