Ubuntu Installation :: Primary Slave With Few Bad Sectors?
Sep 12, 2010I was looking in the disk utility and my primary slave has a few bad sectors, is there a way to fix this? I have attached a screen shot.
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Fedora Servers :: Slave Dns Fails W/o Primary Dns?
Mar 23, 2011setup - one primary dns and one slave dns. zone transfer works, internet works, dig lookup works. if i bring down the primary, everything stops working. should'nt the slave dns pick up the slack when the primary dns goes down.
zone "2.168.192.in-addr.arpa." IN {
type slave;
file "slaves/192.168.2.db";
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Ubuntu Installation :: XP Does Not Work Because Of Bad Sectors
Mar 31, 2011I used to have windows xp. But recently I started having a message at startup telling me that my disk might be failing and I should run the test (which would crash and reboot th laptop). Then after a while windows wont even start. So I tried to use ubuntu netbook live from a usb and it is working fine ! I can even access all my data on the hard disk, although it is telling me that the hard disk is failing and that it has 1024 bad sectors. I have only one hard disk and one partition (120 GB). Can I just install ubuntu and somehow block the bad sectors? (I don't want windows anymore) and is there any way I could keep my old data on the hard disk without backing it up (it is not really important btw).
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Jul 1, 2010when on it`s own but if i put another drive on the same lead either as master or slave it is then reconised? If i boot into a boot disk for windows even though i have no c drive some of the utilities work the same and reconise it hd tune for instance.Would it have some thing to do with the size of the drive? Im using a fujitsu pentium 4 board.
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Nov 7, 2010So i am currently running Windows XP on my Master Drive, and i wanted to learn Linux. But since this PC is shared by other people, i cant just get rid of Windows, so i got a another HD. Can i download Ubuntu onto my Master Drive, and run the installation from my Master Drive and have it install onto my Slave Drive?
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Feb 15, 2011I'm trying to add my xp drive to the boot menu but I'm having some trouble with it. I've been going over dozens of topics on many forums and I still can't get it to work (I'm new to linux/ubuntu btw).
Ok, so, I have Ubuntu 10.04 on the main drive (primary master) and xp on a second drive (secondary slave) and from what I've read sec. slave is hd3. I added the lines I found in another thread (here I think) but when I tried to boot xp it said the drive didn't exist.
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Ubuntu Installation :: Getting Eror That Cannot Copy Log Files Into Slave
Apr 17, 2011I have facing a problem on installation of hadoop multinode cluster. I have installed single node cluster in 2 machines and configured the conf folder of both machines. i have taken one as master machine and another as slave. When i execute start-all.sh on master machine all the parameters are enabled properly on master but didnt enable on slave. When i execute start-all.sh on master iam getting eror that cannot copy log files into slave. The error is as below,
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Ubuntu Installation :: HDD Config - Secondary Master / Slave
May 1, 2011I have an EeePC 901, with a 4gb SSD and a 16gb SSD installed. Trying to get Natty installed and hit a few problems not least of which, that it won't fit on the 4gb drive! However in my BIOS setup under HDD config it says:
Secondary Master=4gb
Secondary Slave=16gb
I have no other devices attached. Why aren't they Primary? And I can't seem to switch them round.
Ubuntu Installation :: More Than 4 Primary Partitions Cant Be Done?
Jan 28, 2010I am having a 250 GB hard disk in my Acer Laptop.
C: - a 65 Gb partition with Win7.
D: - a 150 GB partition with general data.
and 2 partitions by default - a 13 GB and a 3.5 GB one( I guess backup and recovery by Acer or sumthn)
I shrank the D: partition to 135 GB and had made the 15 GB unallocated space to install Ubuntu. Everytime I checked I got the free space shows as 'unusable' in the Ubuntu partitioner. I tried shrinking again with EPM, Win Disk Management and also Ubuntu partitioner. Each time the free space which showed up said Unusable. A friend of mine advised me to defragment and use 'GParted' through the live cd. I did so and when click on the unallocated space to format it said "IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO CREATE MORE THAN 4 PRIMARY PARTITIONS. If you want more partitions you should first create an extended partition. Such a partition can contain other partitions. Because an extended partition is also a primary partition it might be necessary to remove a primary partition first."
I didnt know all of my partitions were primary! And I dont even want D: to be primary. It just is there to hold some data.
Ubuntu Installation :: Moving HD From Secondary To Primary?
Jan 18, 2010Currently I am running Ubuntu 9.10 on an older P4 system with EIDE harddrives. My primary HD has a WinXP installation and GRUB. Ubuntu is installed on the secondary HD.
I am happy enough running Ubuntu that I would like to remove my WinXP disk, move the disk with Ubuntu on it to be the primary boot drive, and then install a new drive as the secondary.
However when I tried to simply move the drive with Ubuntu on it from the secondary to the primary EIDE position the system would not boot. I assume that this is because there is no boot loader currently on that drive.
how do I put GRUB on the Ubuntu drive so that it can become the boot drive? Or is there some other way to accomplish what I am after without having to reinstall Ubuntu?
Ubuntu Installation :: Changing Primary OS In GRUB2?
Feb 27, 2010I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows 7. The problem is I share computer with my brother and sometimes with my girlfriend (but computer is still mine basically).
Now I'd like to set Windows 7 as primary OS, since they don't have much knowledge about computers. When I had Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04 that wasn't a problem but now I don't know how to do it with GRUB2.
So what I want is s simple explanation how to change GRUB2.
Ubuntu Installation :: 10.10 With Only One Free PRIMARY Partition?
Oct 12, 2010right now I've been playing around with Ubuntu using Wubi and I would like to actually install Ubuntu onto its own partition. But I dont want to lose my Windows OS either (I need it for applications like MATLAB and LabVIEW).
My issue is, my laptop currently already has three primary partitions. One for windows, one for recovery and one "SYSTEM_DRV" (used to hold OEM windows license info apparently). I dont want to mess with any of those partitions. my question is, can I still install Ubuntu when I only have one primary partition?
I read about extended and logical partitions in the guide, but the wording was pretty confusing. All it said was Ubuntu needs two partitions, it didnt say if the partitions could be any type.
Ubuntu Installation :: Not Possible To Create More Than 4 Primary Partitions?
Dec 1, 2010I'm trying to install Crunchbang on a partition I made. I managed to resize my Ubuntu for space to install Crunchbang (which essentially is another Linux OS).I currently have Ubuntu 10.10 and Win7 currently installed. The error I get in GParted is the one above in the title. I know there is a way to install a third OS but this problem is killing me. I need some to help my step-by-step. I'm not that bright when comes to technical terms and writing stuff in the terminal. My current filing system:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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Ubuntu Installation :: 3 Other OS - 4 Primary Partitions Of Equal Size
Jun 21, 2010I'm trying to install Ubuntu, Windows 7, Meego, and Android x86 for a project. Here is what I have done so far: Partition the drive into 4 primary partitions of equal size (10gb each). Install Windows7, Android, and Meego onto separate partitions, in that order. Then, install Ubuntu, hoping that GRUB automatically detects the other OS's and creates entries for them. Unfortunately, the only entries in GRUB are for Ubuntu and Windows 7. How do I get to the other 2 OS's (Android and Meego) to show up?
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Sep 5, 2010I have recently ghosted, using g4u, an 80 gig drive to a 30 gig drive. The data size is about 15 gig so no problem there.The system does work and it doing everything it should, except for some errors in dmsg log.The thing is though, that the system works! all the services are running and live.And i have years worth of customizations in this machine. Has been running for several years, so i dont just want to reformat and reinstall. Its hard to get linux the way you want it sometimes!So my question is this, is there a way to fix my partition or somehow tell the machine what the current boundries <i>should</i> be?
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May 9, 2011I have first installed Windows7 to sda2 (sda1 being the MBR). Then I installed Ubuntu as follows: sda3 /boot, sda5 swap (sda4 being the Extended partition), sda6 /, sda7 /home. So far so good. Windows and Ubuntu worked fine. I also planned to create another partition for data and two more partitions for Arch Linux. And here is the problem.I just assumed that the Extended partitions were created logical but actually they are also primary. So, as things stand, all my 7 partitions are primary and I cannot create any more partitions.I must've erred somewhere during the Ubuntu installation. Is it possible ti change the Extended partitions into logical, without affecting all the stuff within? Any ideas? Otherwise I will have to delete everything after Windows and install Ubuntu again, making sure that I create logical partitions in the Extended part
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May 27, 2011just got a new laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit pre-installed, and when I boot into my 11.04 CD, there is no simple option to install alongside windows 7. Only the options to erase the entire disk (wiping windows) or manually specifying partitions. I'd like to keep my windows install as I use it for gaming, but I don't want to mess around with partitions while I don't know what I'm doing. According to the 'Allocate disk space' part of the installation, all 4 primary partitions are being used, a main one for the Windows 7 install, one entitled HP tools, and another two I forget the names of. I have looked up that I may need to turn a primary partition into an extended one,
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Jul 12, 2010I'm setting up my laptop to dual boot (default Vista installation and Ubuntu). There's also a possibility I may add XP later as a triple boot.
My laptop came with two partitions already, the second one labelled "Recovery". I was planning on adding three partitions, one for the Ubuntu installation, one for Swap, and one for storing my files (accessible to both OSs). However, this would be five partitions (or six, if I add XP later).
I've never had to deal with this many partitions before and just learned about the maximum of four primary partitions.
Ubuntu Installation :: Dual Boot With Xp - Ntldr As Primary - Blinking Cursor
Dec 27, 2010Six months ago I installed Ubuntu 10.04 to my otherwise Win XP work laptop. I decided to continue to use Windows' boot loader as primary: I told the Ubuntu installer to put grub2 onto a separate partition, then used dd to copy the first 512 bytes into a file in my Windows C partition, then edited boot.ini to link to it - its a common technique that is described in many support forums and blogs. This worked fine, and continued to work until a few weeks ago. One day I chose the Ubuntu option at the Windows boot loader and got a blinking cursor at top left of screen and no grub2 menu. I was able to use SuperGrub2Disk to discover and boot from my grub2 install - so that didn't appear to be broken. I finally fixed it by dd'ing a fresh copy of the first 512 bytes of my /boot partition over to the Windows C partition. So somehow the Windows boot loader decided it no longer liked my original dd'ed file.
The only things I can think of that might have changed and caused this to happen are (on Ubuntu) an update to security packages using the graphical update manager that pops up (I rarely do a command line apt-get upgrade/dist-upgrade and certainly not in this time frame) and (on Windows) a Windows Update - as it is a work laptop I tend to take whatever essential updates it suggests. As you can see I managed to fix the problem. However does anybody have any similar experience or any explanation why this may have happened? Could an over-zealous Windows Update have caused it?
Fedora Installation :: Preupgrade F9 To F12 Fails With Parsing Primary XML Error
Dec 7, 2009I'm having some issues upgrading my F9 to F12 using 'preupgrade' so I'm looking for anybody who has ever been able to complete a preupgrade from F9 x86_64 to F12. The error message I receive is TypeError: Parsing primary.xml error: attributes construct error. To my knowledge this has been reported as a bug in F10 which was resolved by a yum update to version 3.2.24.
For F9 the latest yum version is 3.2.21 which has this Parsing error bug that prevents the preupgarde to continue. Interesting enough that the preupgarde lets me select Fedora 12 and progresses with all the preupgrade steps properly until the parsing error occur. How to fix this Parsing error on a F9 x86_64 system.
Fedora Installation :: Cannot Partition And Takes Errors,it Is Of Primary Partitions That Is About 77GB?
Dec 25, 2009when i install fedora 11 after windows 7 ,i can not partition and takes errors,it is of primary partitions that is about 77GB that windows 7 had installed on it ,but when i install ubuntu ,it can be installled without any error ,when i asked for this one said me that ubuntu has grub installer that reference to another where for primary partition ,
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Jan 10, 2010I have some bad sectors on the primary HD and want to move everything to a new HD. What would be the steps to do this. I have 5 running websites on the server. The HD are the same make and model. My current HD setup is
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1 Linux LVM 232.65 GB 1 30370 LVM VG server1
2 Extended 243.17 MB 30371 30401
5 Linux 243.17 MB 30371 30401
Ubuntu :: How To Fix A Hard Drive With Bad Sectors
Jan 20, 2010I recently got a bad virus that wouldnt let me reinstall Windows so I figured I would install Ubuntu and give it a go, but now it says my hard drive has "many bad sectors" a quick Google search shows many ways to fix this in Windows, but how do I do it in Ubuntu?Easily since Im just getting the hang of things.
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Feb 17, 2010Since a few days all of my computers (3) running Ubuntu 9.10 report on startup that my external drive has "lots of bad sectors".I have checked this disk on Windows XP with chkdsk and with the SeaTools diagnostic tool dowloaded from Seagate. Both report no problems.Does anyone else suspect these Ubuntu "bad sector" warnings are unreliable?
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May 24, 2010since i've installed lucid, when booting up between the splash screen and the desktop i get lines of multiple i/0 errors. i checked disk utility and it's reporting multiple bad sectors on my hard drive
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Hardware :: Disk Has Many Bad Sectors (110)
Sep 7, 2010I have some errors on my drive and I fear it may be faulty. However there are a few things I would like to try before replacing it through the manufacture or buying a new drive of my own seeing as this is a brand new computer.
Here is my computer and drive:
Acer 5251-1513 Laptop
Toshiba MK2565GSX
Running Fedora 13...now
Here is what is going on. Tried several version of Ubuntu 10.4 (studio, 64bit, 32 bit) and was having many errors during startup and having to press F to fix. Then I lost something with Gnome and the GUI would not function, and I did not know how to replace it. Tried a few other distros but could not get them to work (mostly on my part I am sure.) Then after some forum talk, thought it might just be Ubuntu unable to handle my drive. Now on Fedora 13 and a warning comes up every time I startup. "Disk has many bad sectors"
In the disk utility under the SMART Data it has 2 of the following warnings:
5- Reallocated Sector count..with a value of 72 sectors
197 Current Pending Sector count...with a value of 35 sectors
Total Bad Sectors 108.
The next day that went up to 110
I have used Fsck several times through a live CD, but the problem persists. Trying to understand bad blocks and how to write them to a file?
Hardware :: Aligning Sectors For An SSD?
Aug 3, 2010I have an Acer tiny desktop using laptop components and I want to replace its small laptop hdd running Vista with a Kingston SSDNow V Series Boot Drive 30GB and install Ubuntu, since it will support TRIM. I am aware of the current issues on some new hard drives with 512 vs. 4k sector sizes and the necessity to align sectors for those drives. And I know I've seen some posts or discussion of aligning sectors for SSD's.
I'll be doing more searching for info on this, but my previous searches on the 4K sector alignment issue for the new WD hdd's on linux were confusing. Does anyone have definitive information on the necessity of aligning 4k sectors on current Linux kernels, or on whether aligning sectors is necessary for SSD's?
Ubuntu Servers :: HDD Burn-in Tester To Locate Bad Sectors?
Apr 1, 2010A hard disk occasionally fails. Standard checks like fsck and scandisk fail to report any problem. Is there other software to exercise the disk much more thoroughly so that bad sectors have no chance of being missed?
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Sep 29, 2010I recently buy a Corsair F60, and F14 (and F11) said there is MANY bad sectors on my SSD. Is it a smartctl bug ? how can I confirm or infirm that ?
[root@localhost ~]# smartctl /dev/sdc -a
smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
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After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
