questions about cfdisk

jclark00001 · 02-15-2003, 01:49 PM

i recently reinstalled windows and it took over my swap partition for linux and now its a fat16 paritition, in a post i made earlier, someone told me to use cfdisk to delete it and then make it again, but i dont have cfdisk, im running RH 8.0 and KDE. would cfdisk be on the install cds and i just didnt install the right package? i have fdisk but i cant really figure it out, is there somewhere online i can get cfdisk? i checked sourceforge.net and i dont think they have it.

Palin · 02-15-2003, 01:58 PM

me again
http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/co...8g-1.i386.html

just make sure you have the dependecies. I tried looking on redhat but seems their servers are down at the moment.

jclark00001 · 02-15-2003, 02:04 PM

ok well i downloaded that and it says "cannot install rpm" would that be because i dont have the right dependencies?

Palin · 02-15-2003, 02:07 PM

does it give any error messages?
how are you installing it?

jclark00001 · 02-15-2003, 02:09 PM

when i double click it in konqueror it says "not a valid rpm file" and in the console it just says cannot be installed. when i tried downloading it before the download it says "550 failed to change directory"

Palin · 02-15-2003, 02:11 PM

ok doesn't sound like you have a clean rpm give me a few and will look on my redhat CDs to see if its there.

jclark00001 · 02-15-2003, 02:11 PM

oops im dumb, i was downloading the source rpm, i got the right one and it works now, haha duh

jclark00001 · 02-15-2003, 02:15 PM

ok so im in cfdisk now, can i safely delete my swp partition in KDE, then just create a new one?

Palin · 02-15-2003, 02:30 PM

You should be ok since its not mounted

Palin · 02-15-2003, 02:44 PM

BTW let me know how you make out.

jclark00001 · 02-15-2003, 05:37 PM

im back, i had some school stuff i had to take care of, the proper way to do this would be to delete it, then recreate it then go to write and write the new table right?

Palin · 02-15-2003, 05:39 PM

right delete create
then
mkswap /dev/hda1

was getting worried about you frying your system lol

jclark00001 · 02-15-2003, 05:46 PM

hehe fortunately that wasnt the case, ok i did cfdisk and then mkswap and everything seems to be working fine although it gives me a warning still about bad format on line 9 of my fstab and says it needs a newline at the end, i dont really know what thats all about.

Palin · 02-15-2003, 05:51 PM

hit enter after the last line of your fstab. and verify which is line 9

jclark00001 · 02-15-2003, 05:59 PM

what do you mean, i should add "verify" to line 9?