Thanks Matt; re: Ubuntu 8.04.2, just installed, doesn't allow ... To Matt and mks.

[David MacClement]

· Thanks Matt. Here's what sudo gave me (my 2nd-hand 2002 laptop, Compaq
Presario 2100, still works well but apparently uses hda not sda):
----- begin -----

davd at davd-laptop:~$ sudo parted /dev/hda print
[sudo] password for davd:

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
 1      32.3kB  38.6GB  38.6GB  primary   ext3         boot
 2      38.6GB  40.0GB  1448MB  extended
 5      38.6GB  40.0GB  1448MB  logical   linux-swap

Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.

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· I believe this means there's no record of any earlier partitions.

· See my post: "Thread-end. Starting from scratch (May).Re: Ubuntu 8.04.2
... doesn't allow ... To Matt and mks"
- for my _present_plans_; it's at:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2009-January/172546.html

-{And thanks Nils Kassube|*; that's what I will do after I've started from
scratch.}-

David.

_|*: Nils Kassube:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2009-January/172551.html

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On Sat, January 24, 2009 06:40 NZDT, David MacClement wrote {at:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2009-January/172470.html }:
>
> Thanks, Matt (and others); here's my two tries (copy-n-paste from
terminal):
> ----- begin -----
> davd at davd-laptop:~$ sudo parted /dev/sda print
> Error: Could not stat device /dev/sda - No such file or directory.
> Retry/Cancel? c
> davd at davd-laptop:~$ sudo parted /dev/sda1 print
> Error: Could not stat device /dev/sda1 - No such file or directory
> ----- end -----
>
> I think this means there's nothing called sda in my FileSystem's dev
> folder, and looking in it, that is so.
> I also noticed that there are a whole lot of block-devices and
> character-devices, all with zero bytes; including: hda, hda1, hda2, hda5.

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:25 -0500, Matt wrote {at:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2009-January/172674.html }:

That's strange.  I thought hda was universally replaced with sda by now.
 Do:

sudo parted /dev/hda print

Matt Flaschen

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