By viewing my Disk&File Systems in Hardy, can anyone see why one HDD is partially crippled?

Robert Parker rlp1938 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 22:45:51 UTC 2008


On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Steven Vollom
<stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> Robert Parker wrote:
> > Steven,
> >
> > Getting back to your OP, you said 'permission denied' I think. Maybe I
> > missed something here but I think I'd be starting with:
> > sudo fdisk -l
> > on the system with the 80 gig Maxtor. You will get a list of the
> > partition types on the drive.
> > Then post the output of that to the list.
> > BTW the option to fdisk is 'l' for lollipop not the figure 'one'. In
> > my typeface it's hard to see the difference ymmv.
> >
> > Bob
> > --
> > In a world without walls who needs Windows (or Gates)? Try Linux instead!
> >
> [sudo] password for steven:
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x47a447a3
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1        1824    14651248+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda2            1825       24792   184490460    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/sda5           16523       24792    66428775   83  Linux
> /dev/sda6            1825        2006     1461852   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> /dev/sda7            2007       16522   116599738+  83  Linux
>
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xffffffff
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1               1        2591    20812176   83  Linux
> /dev/sdb2            2592        2856     2128612+  82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> /dev/sdb3            2857        9964    57095010    5  Extended
> /dev/sdb5            2857        9964    57094978+  83  Linux
> steven at Studio25:~$
>
> Dear Bob,
>
> My poor memory says I already answered this, however, it came fresh to
> my inbox, so here it is.  I copied and pasted from the shell.  I
> selected fixed width font, so I don't know why it is not aligned properly.


Text is aligned good enough.

>
> Can you recognize a problem with either sda1 or sdb5?  What is sda2 all
> about.  And f W94 Ext'd (LBA)  looks like Windows 95 extended something.


There is not necessarily any problem with any of your partitions. You
originally complained about 'permission errors' when you attempted to access
your sda5 from some GUI program. Then it all speared into some discussion
about bad blocks for reasons beyond my ken.

In the shell just type:
cd /media
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER sda5
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER sda7

Then you will able to access whatever you need there.

The Win 95 partition is there because someone using a partition editor put
it there. It is no use for anything unless you want to share data with
Windows but even then it is no longer needed because modern Linuxen can read
and write to Windows ntfs partions if there were any around.

Bob
-- 
In a world without walls who needs Windows (or Gates)? Try Linux instead!
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