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Jenda

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New HDD help
« on: 29 August 2005, 21:27 »
Umm... can anyone tell me what disklabel to use on a GNU Linux machine for a 150 GiB HDD that'll serve as a media dump and backup safe? One user only - me, no network - yet.
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Re: New HDD help
« Reply #1 on: 29 August 2005, 21:54 »
P.S.
Very impatient.
Thanks :)
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Re: New HDD help
« Reply #2 on: 29 August 2005, 22:05 »
/mnt/hdb

perhaps? :confused:

I'm sorry, you need to reformulate your question.
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Jenda

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Re: New HDD help
« Reply #3 on: 29 August 2005, 22:11 »
Gparted asks me to set a disklabel (the file at the beginning of a disk that specifies partition positions et al..
The options:
msdos (defalt)
bsd
loop
gpt
mac
pc98
sun
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Jenda

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Re: New HDD help
« Reply #4 on: 29 August 2005, 22:16 »
oh well... I'll just use the default - I hate the "ms" in it, though. I might change it later (before I have any big data on there).
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Re: New HDD help
« Reply #5 on: 29 August 2005, 22:40 »
OK, that done, and now:
How can I move my "/" partition, preferably from Ubuntu or the Ubuntu Live-CD?
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Re: New HDD help
« Reply #6 on: 30 August 2005, 09:56 »
Just stick with MSDOS, and use a real distro for it I suggest. If you really wanted to be snazzy you could use a BSD disklabel.

And if you boot off the livecd you could probably get it to work with something (kinda) like this...
$ cp -R / /mnt (mnt being mounted to the harddisk, with all other partitions (if any) mounted in there).
$ chroot /mnt

$ grub-install
or
$ lilo

depending on whatever you have, you might have to change certain options and stuff for grub/lilo or actually get grub/lilo, read the docs for them and you should be right.
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Jenda

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Re: New HDD help
« Reply #7 on: 30 August 2005, 14:31 »
OK, thanks. I'll get down to it ASAP, i.e. tomorrow.
Wish me luck - exams tomorrow morning to get "reaccepted" to my school after being away so long.
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Re: New HDD help
« Reply #8 on: 30 August 2005, 14:49 »
fdisk + mke2fs (-j) = disk partitioning my way :)
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Re: New HDD help
« Reply #9 on: 30 August 2005, 15:26 »
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda

disk paritioning my way.
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Re: New HDD help
« Reply #10 on: 30 August 2005, 23:07 »
heh
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Re: New HDD help
« Reply #11 on: 31 August 2005, 03:00 »
Try Eeet11!
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