If I use dd or cp, will they only copy the contents?
The contents of the misbehaving partition seem to be perfectly intact. I can boot SuSE live from a DVD and mount the partition. The problem is that grub won't recognize it as a boot partition.
Hmm. cp or dd on a partition won't set a partition bootable, no, that's defined in the partition table, i.e. sector zero.
Quote:
Is there a way I can only change the attributes of the partition?
Something like this will set Partition 1 bootable:
Hi
Can anyone help me with the task below?
Example:
The contents in fileA.txt are:
HELLO
HOW DO U DO?
The contents in fileA.txt are:
HI
I AM FINE.
how to combine the data in 2 files into one with the format below?
Case A-fileA.txt
HELLO
HOW DO U DO?
Case B-fileB.txt (4 Replies)
Please help - I need to copy a single file to multiple directories.
Dir structure:
Parent_Directoy
Filename1
Child_Directory1
Child_Directory2
Child_Directory3
Child_Directory4
....
So I need to copy Filename1 to all of the... (2 Replies)
Hello dear........this is karan singh.
I want to ask a question that how can we install more than one OS in a single partition of any hard disk.
I am not asking about to install more than one os in a hard disk,but on a single partition.
NOTE:I am confident that it is possible to install... (2 Replies)
Scenario:
I would want to copy my / to /mnt, and to avoid recursion exclude /mnt.
cp -avx / /mnt
If i use the above i believe it would run recursively, and end up in mess. So how to do it ?!
Basically this / is sda1, and /mnt is sda2 and sda1 is where only OS is available & currently... (2 Replies)
This is now a larger script than I would customarily post. But many folks have become accustom to getting it off this forum.
Every couple of years I update my favorite scripts. This script is one that I use regularly and have posted older versions every couple of years. I noticed that it has... (3 Replies)
Here's a conundrum. I use a ThinkPad (T30) which has a slot on the side for the hard drive. It is very easy to swap this with another hard drive which I keep as a backup. Now when I copy the Linux partition from my (in use) hard drive to the backup one (in my UltraBay slot) it takes only 30... (0 Replies)
Hello,
someone please suggest me how write a script or command to create partition and label whole disk as LVM . I have multiple servers that I to label as LVM using fdisk, that will very hard process.
This is what I currently doing to create to partition and label.
# fdisk /dev/sdb
... (0 Replies)
I have the following script that I use to copy a list of files from one dir to another,
#!/usr/bin/bash
# $1=filename of file with the list of files to copy
# $2=column header for col in list file with filenames (filePath in most cases)
# $3=src dir
# $3=destination dir
FILE_LIST="$1"... (6 Replies)
I need to copy a complete directory structure into a new location. But I want to have all files copied into one directory and leave out the directory structure. So all files must be placed in one directory. (4 Replies)
good evening,
hi, I have problem for copy file, size more > 1 TB, just only for single file.
error said, capacity not enough, even my storage I set to 4 TB, file always reject during finish copy.
but, if I copy with multiple file/separate file, total calculation file is 2 TB, always success.... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: katumping
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LEARN ABOUT OSF1
disktab
disktab(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual disktab(4)NAME
disktab - Disk description file
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/disklabel.h>
DESCRIPTION
The disktab database describes disk geometries and disk partition characteristics. It is used to initialize the disk label on the disk.
The format is patterned after the termcap terminal database. Entries in a disktab file consist of a number of : (colon) separated fields.
The first entry for each disk gives the names which are known for the disk, separated by | (vertical bar) characters. The last name given
should be a long name fully identifying the disk.
The following list indicates the normal values stored for each disk entry: Type Description str Type of disk (for example, removable, win-
chester) str Type of controller (for example, SMD, ESDI, floppy) num Number of sectors per track num Number of tracks per cylinder
num Total number of cylinders on the disk num Number of sectors per cylinder, nc*nt default num Number of sectors per unit, sc*nc
default num Sector size in bytes, DEV_BSIZE default bool Controller supports bad144-style bad sector forwarding num Rotation speed,
rpm, default 3600 num Sector skew per track, default 0 num Sector skew per cylinder, default 0 num Headswitch time, usec, default 0
num One-cylinder seek time, usec, default 0 num Sector interleave (n:1), default 1 num Drive-type-dependent parameters num Boot block
size, default BBSIZE num Superblock size, default SBSIZE num Block size for partition `a' (bytes) num Block size for partition `d'
(bytes) num Block size for partition `e' (bytes) num Block size for partition `f' (bytes) num Block size for partition `g' (bytes)
num Block size for partition `h' (bytes) num Fragment size for partition `a' (bytes) num Fragment size for partition `d' (bytes)
num Fragment size for partition `e' (bytes) num Fragment size for partition `f' (bytes) num Fragment size for partition `g' (bytes)
num Fragment size for partition `h' (bytes) num Offset of partition `a' in sectors num Offset of partition `b' in sectors num Offset of
partition `c' in sectors num Offset of partition `d' in sectors num Offset of partition `e' in sectors num Offset of partition `f' in
sectors num Offset of partition `g' in sectors num Offset of partition `h' in sectors num Size of partition `a' in sectors num Size of
partition `b' in sectors num Size of partition `c' in sectors num Size of partition `d' in sectors num Size of partition `e' in sectors
num Size of partition `f' in sectors num Size of partition `g' in sectors num Size of partition `h' in sectors str Partition type of
partition `a' (4.2BSD file system, swap, etc.) str Partition type of partition `b' str Partition type of partition `c' str Parti-
tion type of partition `d' str Partition type of partition `e' str Partition type of partition `f' str Partition type of partition `g'
str Partition type of partition `h'
EXAMPLES
The following is an example disktab entry:
rz25|RZ25|DEC RZ25 Winchester:
:ty=winchester:dt=SCSI:ns#62:nt#9:nc#1492:
:oa#0:pa#131072:ba#8192:fa#1024:
:ob#131072:pb#262144:bb#8192:fb#1024:
:oc#0:pc#832527:bc#8192:fc#1024:
:od#393216:pd#146437:bd#8192:fd#1024:
:oe#539656:pe#146437:be#8192:fe#1024:
:of#686096:pf#146437:bf#8192:ff#1024:
:og#393216:pg#439311:bg#8192:fg#1024:
:oh#0:ph#0:bh#8192:fh#1024:
FILES
/etc/disktab
RELATED INFORMATION
Functions: getdiskbyname(3)
Files: disklabel(4)
Commands: disklabel(8), newfs(8) delim off
disktab(4)