On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 22:58:27 +0200
Johan Sch
Hi,
While rsyncing data to my second drive for backup it went into "forever" . the disk light stayed on and the box "hanged". The only recourse was to press the reset switch.
So to be on the safe side I booted with the cdrom rescue system.
Fdsik -l . told me that disk hdg1 , hdg2, hdg3, hdg4 the extended partition did not end on a cylinder. The rest from hdg5 up to hdg11 were OK.
Checking with partition magic 8. I was told there is errors and want to fix it. I read sometime ago on one of the many lists I belong to not to fix this with PM. There is a linux utility that can fix linux partitions. This drive was partitioned with qtparted.
There was also mention that linux utilities exist to reset the mbr and other disk repair operatins. GNU Parted can do this. I personally prefer to boot a standalone Knoppix Cd, and run QTParted.
As far as the MBR is concerned, the dd command should be able to clear
it out, but you can also use YaST to install a boot loader.
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Jerry Feldman