twopinkblobs@t-online.de (Michael Ayers) writes:
On Tuesday 31 December 2002 15:24, Alexandr Malusek wrote:
IMHO the Zip can be partitioned as an ordinary HD. Use "fdisk" to delete the partition 4 and create a new primary partition 1. Then use "mke2fs /dev/hdd1" to create the ext2 file system there.
This worked perfectly thankyou, but I still can't read my old disks so I guess I will have to rebuild the computer that I had 7.3 installed on and try to move the data the hard way !
How did you create the ext2 file system there? I can't create ext2 on /dev/hdd1 if only the partition 4 is in the Zip's partition table: # fdisk -l /dev/hdd Disk /dev/hdd: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 239 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdd4 1 239 244720 6 FAT16 # mke2fs /dev/hdd1 mke2fs 1.24a (02-Sep-2001) mke2fs: Device size reported to be zero. Invalid partition specified, or partition table wasn't reread after running fdisk, due to a modified partition being busy and in use. You may need to reboot to re-read your partition table. Are you sure the ext2 isn't on hdd4? -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se