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Sendell
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Joined: 30 Sep 2002
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Location: Belgium
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 Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 6:50 pm Post subject: confusing partition table |
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Hello all,
I'm doing a new installation, and wanted to try out reiser4 (lxnay livecd).
During partitioning and creation of the filesystems I mistyped and changed my mind a few times but when it finally was ok I rebooted, mounted and it all looked good (as far as I could see with mount command)
Later on I noticed that there was something wrong. (hiding hdc to keep it clear, it contains /var /tmp /home /usr)
what I wanted:
| Code: | /dev/hda7 reiserfs 30M /boot
/dev/hda8 linux-swap 500M swap
/dev/hda9 reiser4 5G /
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It all looks ok when mounting:
| Code: | lxnaycd tecnico # mount /dev/hda9 /mnt/gentoo/
lxnaycd tecnico # mount /dev/hda7 /mnt/gentoo/boot/
lxnaycd tecnico # swapon /dev/hda8
lxnaycd tecnico # mount
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/dev/hda9 on /mnt/gentoo type reiser4 (rw)
/dev/hda7 on /mnt/gentoo/boot type reiserfs (rw)
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but output of 'fdisk -l' tells me something else:
| Code: | /dev/hda7 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda8 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda9 83 Linux
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and qtparted tells me a third thing:
| Code: | /dev/hda7 unknown 30M
/dev/hda8 reiserfs 500M
/dev/hda9 linux-swap 5G
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Clearly there is something wrong as the disk seems to remember some things from the past. 
Now to solve it I was thinking of:
- booting with livecd, mounting a partition on hdc (reiser4) and then using mv command to move / and /boot to each his own new directory.
- make hdc somehow forget these strange things and recreate the partitions
- mv / and /boot back and live happily ever after
Questions  :
- What happen ?
- How do I do number 2? (I don't want to lose the other partitions on hda)
- Would there be a problem with permissions if I start moving the files around?
- What did I overlook?
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Crenshaw
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Joined: 23 Jun 2004
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Location: Poland
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| Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Permissions will be ok if you will cp -p everything. |
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Sendell
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Location: Belgium
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| Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2004 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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thanks,
I looked into cp arguments and used 'cp -Rpd'
FYI, It's solved, fdisk said something about wrong order of partitions. wich I could fix in the eXpert menu in fdisk. |
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