[Elphel-support] more about my problems with the HDD

[Carlos Padial]

ok, i follow the wiki again and post you what happens

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1824 cylinders, total 29305206 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      1K-Blocks  Id System

Command (m for help): n
Command action
   e   extended
   p   primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First sector (1-29305205, default 1): Using default value 1
Last sector or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-29305205, default
29305205): Using default value 29305205

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1824 cylinders, total 29305206 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      1K-Blocks  Id System
/dev/hda1               1    29305205      117220820  83 Linux

Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table
[root at Elphel353 /]1089# mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda1 -m0 -T largefile4
mke2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
mkfs.ext2: Could not determine if /dev/hda1 is mounted

Could not determine filesystem size

?

and if i do cat /proc/partitions again hda1 isn't there