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RE: Re:

spottedcat — Wed May 31, 2006 8:56 pm

Author: spottedcat

Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 8:56 pm

johndough, thanks, but if you go up the page you'll see that nelz suggested options for both vfat and ext2/3. e2label was there all the time - at least in SuSE. Just thought I'd point you to that - you might find it as useful as I'm going to.

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johndough — Wed May 31, 2006 8:38 pm

Author: johndough

Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 8:38 pm

spottedcat wrote:

johndough, a question. Do you know of a way of labelling/relabelling a partition that already exists and which contains data - ie without damaging the partition or corrupting the data. I've only been able to label partitions when first creating them. I've looked in Gparted, qtparted, fdisk at the cli and Acronis Disk Director in Windows (which deals with Linux partitions very nicely), but I've never yet found a way to do this.

hiya

TBH no not really reliably.

in theory dos will retrospectively add a label of upto 11 characters.

but it is not guaranteed, hence the trick of making a txt file for ID.

Re: RE: Problem solved

spottedcat — Tue May 30, 2006 10:23 pm

Author: spottedcat

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 10:23 pm

bof wrote:

Is there a pill I can take to avoid me catching Linuxmanicusgeekus?

No. It's too late. You're hooked. It's downhill all the way now.

Re: RE: Problem solved

bof — Tue May 30, 2006 10:20 pm

Author: bof

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 10:20 pm

spottedcat wrote:

Both! Blue theme or Orange-brown theme, depending on what mood you're in.

Oh I hadn't realised that the colour coding was significant. If I want a distro that will plant my emails in the same folder as my Window box, will run Quicken and Dreamweaver, recognise my scanner and my wireless card and ... oh yes, let me run a second monitor (19") at the same time,,,, wel. what colour distro would that be?

Quote:

And only two distros? Call yourself a Linuxista? See this thread if you haven't found it already.

Is there a pill I can take to avoid me catching Linuxmanicusgeekus?

RE: Problem solved

spottedcat — Tue May 30, 2006 9:46 pm

Author: spottedcat

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 9:46 pm

Both! Blue theme or Orange-brown theme, depending on what mood you're in. And only two distros? Call yourself a Linuxista? See this thread if you haven't found it already.

But glad to hear you've mended SuSE.

RE: Problem solved

nelz — Tue May 30, 2006 9:45 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 9:45 pm

You didn't need to delete the broken user, just change the home directory back to what it was.

Problem solved

bof — Tue May 30, 2006 9:40 pm

Author: bof

Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 9:40 pm

Just to let you know that I have got Suse working ok again.
I managed it by logging in to the terminal mode, getting into the text version of YaST and adding a new user account. I then logged in successfully as the new user and deleted the old broken user.
My thanks to all of you for your help.
Now then . .... which one should I use? Suse or ubuntu

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Can

spottedcat — Sun May 28, 2006 9:23 pm

Author: spottedcat

Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 9:23 pm

Er yes it was rather obvious - if I'd known the name of what I was looking for, and then I wouldn't have had to ask. Google failed me, but that fits the bill nicely. Thanks. nelz.

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Can

nelz — Sun May 28, 2006 8:52 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 8:52 pm

If you're using ext2/3, you've missed something blindingly and deafeningly obvious, e2label

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Can

GMorgan — Sun May 28, 2006 2:05 pm

Author: GMorgan

Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 2:05 pm

Ubuntu sets it up if you tell it to during the install. It generally tries to mount all NTFS and FAT partitions into strange places. So yes it detects them but you will have to change the mount points manually (unless you manually partition the HDD during install like I do).

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Can

spottedcat — Sun May 28, 2006 1:17 pm

Author: spottedcat

Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 1:17 pm

Thanks. I'll download that later and have a look at it. But I was also hoping to label/relabel already existing Linux partitions. Oh no. You're going to tell me I've missed something really obvious, aren't you?

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Can

nelz — Sun May 28, 2006 11:00 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 11:00 am

Are you talking about a FAT partition here? If so, you want mlabel, part of mtools.

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Can

spottedcat — Sun May 28, 2006 10:49 am

Author: spottedcat

Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 10:49 am

johndough, a question. Do you know of a way of labelling/relabelling a partition that already exists and which contains data - ie without damaging the partition or corrupting the data. I've only been able to label partitions when first creating them. I've looked in Gparted, qtparted, fdisk at the cli and Acronis Disk Director in Windows (which deals with Linux partitions very nicely), but I've never yet found a way to do this.

Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Can

johndough — Sun May 28, 2006 9:51 am

Author: johndough

Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 9:51 am

hiya

there are a coupla ways to ID a drive/partition.

a simple way is to create a TEXT file named as the drive. it can be 0 bytes long.
E_drive.txt on the root of E: drive will ID it.
Ubuntu.txt on the root of Ubuntu /dev/hda4 or whatever.

another way is to give the drive/partition a label. i have an externel drive that connects via USB cable.

i named it TEEDRIVE and when it is detected it shows up in windows and LINUX as TEEDRIVE.
it may be E: TEEDRIVE in explorer, and /dev/sda1 TEEDRIVE in linux but at least i recognise it;)

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Can

spottedcat — Sun May 28, 2006 12:22 am

Author: spottedcat

Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 12:22 am

Actually, one shouldn't need to do that in Dapper - or at least I don't have to in my installation. Here's my Dapper /etc/fstab:

Code:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda9 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
/dev/sda10 /media/sda10 reiserfs defaults 0 2
/dev/sda11 /media/sda11 ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda12 /media/sda12 ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda13 /media/sda13 ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda2 /media/sda2 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
/dev/sda6 /media/sda6 ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda7 /media/sda7 ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda8 /media/sda8 ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

It picked up my fat32 partition, as well as all the other partitions, automagically on install without me having to lift a finger. Now I just have to click on one of the icons littering my desktop. (Bit of a mess after the minimalist look of Breezy though. ). Gid 46 is plugdev group. This is really impressive. Dapper is going to be something very special. I've already got xgl working very nicely in it and enabling the nvidia driver was one of the easiest things I've done in Linux so far.

bof, I'll look out for your new thread tomorrow or whenever. We'll need detailed information on your partition layout, but (of course) there's an easy way to get this in Dapper.* I'll tell you where the GUI app is when you've posted. And we also need to clarify one thing that puzzled me from your previous thread. In that, if memory serves my right, you said your fat32/Windows E: partition was hdc6. As you'll see from GMorgan's post, that means that it's on your third hard drive. On a laptop? I'm intrigued. And if the sda's in my fstab are confusing you, that's because it's a serial ata drive. hdx=ide (parallel ata) drive. sdx=sata or scsi (and also usb memory devices).

Edit * There's an even easier way. You post the contents of /etc/fstab like I've just done. I think I'll go to bed now.