hardware space size error
Richard E Miles
r.godzilla at comcast.net
Tue Oct 12 22:03:23 UTC 2004
> > Cao,
> >
> > Bao Cao wrote:
> > > Hi, Thanks for your reply.
> > > Regarding convert, what I did is: I used
> > > PartitionMagic to delete the logical drive of hdb6
> > > under Windows, then, I partitioned it with ext3
> > form,
> > > after that, restarted and logon FC2. The whole hdb
> > > consists of 3 drives, two of them are NTFS,
> > totally
> > > about 100GB, then last one is ext3. Since now most
> > of
> > > my data should be done under Linux, I converted it
> > to
> > > ext3 avoiding of writing permission problem with
> > NTFS.
> > >
> > > I'm pretty newbie of FC2. I tried googling first,
> > but
> > > it still not clear how I can deal with it. Any
> > > suggestion please? Thanks.
> >
> > What is the output of
> >
> > df -hl
> I just naively followed the settings for hda6 and
> changed /etc/fstab by using:
> /dev/hdb6 /mnt/homewd ext3
> defaults 0 0
>
> df -hl
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda3 13G 4.2G 7.8G 35% /
> /dev/hda2 97M 7.6M 85M 9% /boot
> none 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda6 5.0G 3.7G 1.1G 78% /home
> /dev/hdb1 48G 35G 14G 73% /mnt/win_g
> /dev/hdb5 48G 102M 48G 1% /mnt/win_h
> /dev/hdb6 89G 13G 72G 16%
> /mnt/homewd
> /dev/hda1 19G 4.9G 14G 27%
> /mnt/windows
>
> It seems hdb6 is back, but I am not sure any possible
> future risk. I have to logon as root to do "chmod 777
> /mnt/homewd" to get write permission, how to change
> fstab so that I get all the permission automatically?
>
> > and (as root)
> > fdisk -l /dev/hdb
>
> bash: fdisk: command not found
>
> Does that mean I didn't install fdisk?
>
> > ?
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Cao
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Alex
> >
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try /sbin/fdisk
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Richard E Miles
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