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Re: Running fdisk from rescue floppy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Mon Nov 30 13:17:44 1998
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 09:12:08 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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guillermo mulliert carlin wrote:
>
> On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Ramon Gandia wrote:
>
> >
> > Well, for starters, there is not such thing as /dev/hd0. The IDE
> > drives are:
> >
> > primary master: hda
> > primary slave: hdb
> > secondary master: hdc
> > secondary slave: hdd
>
> do not forget to add a number for the partition
>
> fist partition hda1
> second hda2
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!
You are incorrect, you do not invoke fdisk with a partition
number, just the drive. Like this:
prompt# fdisk /dev/hda <---- correct
prompt# fdisk /dev/hda2 <---- incorrect !!!!!
Partition numbers are referred in /etc/fstab, mount, etc. but
not on fdisk invocation.
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