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Believe it or not I was an admin for a long time on mandrivausers.org. I did updates and pieced together mods using php which I had to figure out on my own.
Don't feel bad I'm still learning myself ....
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mystified
I'm not kidding when I say I'm rusty' I've forgotten a lot!
Code:
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 29296639 29294592 14G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 29296640 58593279 29296640 14G 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 58593280 1933592575 1874999296 894.1G 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 1933592576 1953523711 19931136 9.5G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
When I had it installed I told them I wanted some extra blank partitions, they gave me one and a separate /home
The reason t's out of order is because it wasn't there at all and I put it there.
Code:
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=f3a3b058-e5a4-49fb-8a04-f7c190e7bec8 / ext4 defaults 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda3 during installation
#UUID=8b050d2d-ddf2-498e-b5a4-be7bc616b1d1 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda4 during installation
UUID=54ee6d31-6f6e-413d-b4e5-ab82c322d522 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
UUID=e55dc00204 /mnt/lfs ext4 defaults 0 1
#/dev/sda2 /mnt/lfs ext4 defaults 0 1
How did you put that partition there? maybe you did a oops.
do you know how to use gparted? what is dev/sda2 being used for , anything?
can you delete it then reestablish it using gparted?
it too is out of sequence. 1 , 3 , 4 , 2 like someone deleted then added a partition or partitioned you hard drive in half then added two more partitions off what space was on sda1 some how screwing up sda2 ?
In a UEFI system, the partitions are in the order they are created, not in the order they are on the disk, and this partition scheme is not GPT, but apparently following that order.
@ goumba
So.... what you are saying is basically what I'm saying, just using different wording?
Thanks for the help, it's needed.
How did you put that partition there? maybe you did a oops.
do you know how to use gparted? what is dev/sda2 being used for , anything?
can you delete it then reestablish it using gparted?
No I've never used it. I always partitioned during installation.
i know I've explained this but in case someone missed it I bought this computer from linuxlaptops and they partitioned and it's supposed to be ext4. There's nothing on the partition and yes I could edit fstab and remove if that's what you mean.
Something's definitely wrong here. I noticed you said you bought the system, and Debian was preinstalled. Perhaps something is broken. I don't know how they installed Debian.
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