[SOLVED] How to configure hdb disk?

GlennsPref · 02-11-2010, 09:39 PM

Hi,

from your output I see you have no dedicated /home partition.

Quote:

cat /etc/fstab
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This was output:

/dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda5 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0022,iocharset=utf8,sync 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0022,nls=utf8,ro 0 0
/dev/hda2 /mnt/win_d ntfs umask=0022,nls=utf8,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
---------------------------------------------

The danger of this is if you have to re-install linux, you will have to format / , removing your personal file in /home as well. ffft!

The fs type is secured under win2k, as described here...

ref.http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partition...n_types-1.html

Quote:

42 Linux swap (sharing disk with DRDOS)
42 SFS (Secure Filesystem)

SFS is an encrypted filesystem driver for DOS on 386+ PCs, written by Peter Gutmann.
42 Windows 2000 dynamic extended partition marker

If a partition table entry of type 0x42 is present in the legacy partition table, then W2K ignores the legacy partition table and uses a proprietary partition table and a proprietary partitioning scheme (LDM or DDM). As the Microsoft KnowledgeBase writes: Pure dynamic disks (those not containing any hard-linked partitions) have only a single partition table entry (type 42) to define the entire disk. Dynamic disks store their volume configuration in a database located in a 1-MB private region at the end of each dynamic disk.

Can you post the output of...

Code:

dmesg | grep hdb

ref. http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-328351.html

This will/should show us what the kernel reported about the drive during the last boot, may be an answer there.

Can you back up the content from within (using the win7 OS) win7 to another drive? Not formatting win7 partitions, just the sfs drive.

Then reformat the large drives to ntfs, If you realy need to, or to fat32, for easy access from both Linux and win7. You may require a lot of dvd's or some other HD's.

It maybe the best way out.

cheers and all the best, Glenn

GlennsPref · 02-11-2010, 09:46 PM

Quote:

I dedicated nearly 38 GBs to / (more than half full now)

Goes to show, the system requirements for the / partition and the system folders.

38/2=19Gig

cheers, Glenn

irajjs · 02-12-2010, 02:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GlennsPref

Goes to show, the system requirements for the / partition and the system folders.

38/2=19Gig

cheers, Glenn

Quote:

Can you post the output of...
Code:

dmesg | grep hdb

Hi

I typed as root:

dmesg | grep hdb

this was the output:

ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda

MA, hdb

MA
hdb: MAXTOR STM3160215A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: max request size: 512KiB
hdb: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: cache flushes supported
hdb:<3>ldm_parse_privhead(): Expected PRIVHEAD version 2.11, got 2.12. Aborting.
---------------------------------------------------------
As i said i will not format that hard disk,no problem if Linux can not read that!

Thank you.

irajjs · 02-12-2010, 02:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by backtolinux

what I understand : accessing ntfs partition under mandriva2007, produced always a message saying you have to change partition type, isn't it ?
under mandriva2007, there is a tool to manage the ntfs partition (i forget the name), but writting on with this tool is marked experimental. It's why i suggested you to install ntfs-3g, that is a released version to write more safety and to recognize all the version of ntfs file system.
It was just a suggestion

Hello

-Firstly,thank you for trying to hep me,and thank you for your suggestion,i will download and install that <ntfs-3g> later.
-Your understanding of my post still is not correct:

Quote:

My second hard disk,named as hdb,was not detected at installation time,after detecting that with harddrake,still it is not mountable,because,in configuring that,a message said to me that its' file system (already ntfs) must be changed

Quote:

Windows related partitions(ntfs) on hda(Mandriva is here too) are already mounted.

If still it is not clear let me know.

Thank you.

GlennsPref · 02-12-2010, 06:54 PM

Yes, it's just that GNU/Linux can't access sfs (Secure File System, from M$)

You might try linking. But I do not know how to implement that for this problem.

Cheers, Glenn

irajjs · 02-13-2010, 04:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GlennsPref

Yes, it's just that GNU/Linux can't access sfs (Secure File System, from M$)

You might try linking. But I do not know how to implement that for this problem.

Cheers, Glenn

Hello

-Thank you all for your spending time to help me,i did some more work,and,eventually i concluded that,this (current) issue,is not a real problem,because,after arrival of newer versions,these kinds of problems,belong to the past! (besides to all mentioned before,i typed some other commands,which proved to me that this software has been defective),and i should find and install newest version of Linux distributions.Thus i am going to mark this thread as solved.
These are some of what i have done today:

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typed:
autoconf /dev/hdb
/usr/bin/m4: /dev/hdb: Permission denied
autom4te-2.5x: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
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typed as root:
autoconf /dev/hdb
output after more than an hour(abriviated):
.............memoey exhusted
failed..........return to state1
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typed:
rpm --rebuilddb
no output
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then typed som rpm related commands,such as:
rpm --enhances
rpm --fileid
...etc
rpm --triggeredby
...etc
rpm --whatrequires
rpm --rebuilddb
...and
rpm --autorollback

no output for all
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typed:rpm -Va
output: (just missing ones)
missing /boot/kernel.h-2.6.17
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missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/9wm.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/aewm++.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/aewm.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/afterstep.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/amaterus.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/amiwm.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/asclassic.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/blackbox.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/cde.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/ctwm.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/cwwm.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/enlightenment.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/evilwm.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/fluxbox.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/flwm.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/fvwm.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/fvwm95.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/gnome.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/golem.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/icewm.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/ion.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/kde.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/larswm.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/lwm.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/matchbox.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/metacity.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/mwm.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/olvwm.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/olwm.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/openbox.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/oroborus.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/phluid.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/pwm.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/qvwm.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/ratpoison.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/sapphire.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/sawfish.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/twm.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/ude.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/vtwm.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/w9wm.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/waimea.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/wm2.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/wmaker.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/xfce.desktop
missing /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/xfce4.desktop
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missing /var/run/ppp/resolv.conf

Again thank you all.

GlennsPref · 02-13-2010, 07:44 PM

Quote:

typed:
rpm --rebuilddb
no output

No news is good news!

See other post. :-)