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 MINIX
partitio
PARTITION(8) System Manager's Manual PARTITION(8)NAME
partition - make a partition table
SYNOPSIS
partition [-mf] device [type:]size[+*] ...
DESCRIPTION
Partition makes a partition table on device using the types and sizes given. It may be used in combination with repartition(8) for auto-
matic installation of Minix.
You may give up to four type:size[+*] specifications for the partitions. You may also specify holes before, between, and after the parti-
tions. A hole differs from a partition specification by not having a type.
The first hole is by default 1 sector to make space for the primary bootstrap and the partition table. The other holes are 0.
The type field is the type of the partitition in hexadecimal. The size field is the partition's size in sectors. The + or * may option-
ally be added to indicate that the partition must be expanded to contain any leftover space on the device or to mark the partition active.
Partitions are padded out to cylinder boundaries, except for the first one, it starts on track 1. Some operating systems care about this.
Minix and MS-DOS do not.
OPTIONS -m Minix only, no need to pad partitions. This is the default for subpartition tables.
-f Force making a partition table even if the device is too small.
EXAMPLE
partition /dev/hd0 01:16384 81:40000 81:2880* 06:20000+
Partitions disk 0 into an 8 Mb DOS partition, 20 Mb Minix /usr, 1.44 Mb Minix / (active), and a DOS partition of at least 10 Mb at the end
of the disk. (06:0+ would have been ok too, it's just a sanity check.)
SEE ALSO hd(4), part(8), repartition(8).
AUTHOR
Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
PARTITION(8)