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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: Jenda on 29 August 2005, 21:27

Title: New HDD help
Post by: Jenda 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.

Title: Re: New HDD help
Post by: Jenda on 29 August 2005, 21:54

P.S.
Very impatient.
Thanks :)

Title: Re: New HDD help
Post by: Refalm on 29 August 2005, 22:05

/mnt/hdb

perhaps? :confused:

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

Title: Re: New HDD help
Post by: Jenda 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

Title: Re: New HDD help
Post by: Jenda 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).

Title: Re: New HDD help
Post by: Jenda 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?

Title: Re: New HDD help
Post by: Kintaro 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.

Title: Re: New HDD help
Post by: Jenda 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.

Title: Re: New HDD help
Post by: solemnwarning on 30 August 2005, 14:49

fdisk + mke2fs (-j) = disk partitioning my way :)

Title: Re: New HDD help
Post by: Kintaro on 30 August 2005, 15:26

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda

disk paritioning my way.

Title: Re: New HDD help
Post by: solemnwarning on 30 August 2005, 23:07

heh

Title: Re: New HDD help
Post by: Kintaro on 31 August 2005, 03:00

Try Eeet11!