disk problem

[Jeff Vian]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 20:04 -0800, Chris Norman wrote:
> What does this output mean? I'm a little more worried about this one!:D
> 
> [root at bob ~]# sfdisk -l
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 19590 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
>   for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 19590/16/63).
> For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
> Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
> 
>    Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *      0+   1164    1165-   9357831   83  Linux
> /dev/hda2       1165    1215      51     409657+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda3       1216    1228      13     104422+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
> 

Please send the output of fdisk -l.
I am not sure why but this looks really weird to me.  Maybe sfdisk is
not reporting it the same as fdisk would. 

> Disk /dev/hdb: 238216 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
> 
> sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature
>  /dev/hdb: unrecognized partition table type
> No partitions found
> 
> Disk /dev/hdb1: 238216 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
> 
> sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature
>  /dev/hdb1: unrecognized partition table type
> No partitions found
> 
hdb has never had a partition table written.
Is it a new disk?  Possibly installed but never used?

Rough figures show that is likely a 200GB drive.


> What does that little lot mean please?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris Norman
> <!-- chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com -->
> Selling cheap but functional shell accounts.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richard C. Isaacson" <ri at beldurnik.com>
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 11:58 AM
> Subject: Re: disk problem
> 
> 
> You are looking at the character device that is sitting on the dynamic
> /dev filesystem. That is the correct output to get but. Your disks would
> be mounted under /, /tmp, /var, and /usr or what you selected at
> install. just do a 'df -k' and you will see them.
> 
> -richard
> 
> Chris Norman wrote:
> > Hi people,
> > I have just put a 114 Gb disk in my machine and coppied a load of stuff 
> > over
> > to it. The stuff seems fine, the disk is mounted on /media/hdb1 and I've
> > remounted that folder to /var/ftp (for the ftp server). The only thing is,
> > when I use df on either of my disks, I get this output:
> >
> > [chris at bob ~]$ df /dev/hda
> > Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > -                       249184       696    248488   1% /dev
> > [chris at bob ~]$ df /dev/hdb
> > Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > -                       249184       696    248488   1% /dev
> > Is that right? Shouldn't it say "ext2" in the filesystem column???
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chris Norman
> > <!-- chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com -->
> > Selling cheap but functional shell accounts.
> >
> >
> 
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