[Eug-lug] newbie problem

Bob Miller kbob at jogger-egg.com
Sun Dec 18 13:08:58 PST 2005


Mr O wrote:

> That's partial success. Is there a filesystem on the drive yet?
> Try "cfdisk /dev/sda" or ""fdisk /dev/sda", then "p"". You
> should see "sda1, sda2,etc.." if you have more than one
> partition. Then you can mount the appropriate one.

Also "fdisk -l /dev/sda".  That prints the partition table
with no opportunity to overwrite it.

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Bob Miller                              K<bob>
                                        kbob at jogger-egg.com


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