Yet Another Etch

Laesander · 09-17-2007, 11:20 AM

Ok guys, alittle seasoned, alittle unfamiliar with new versions. 4.0 has a utility called Disk Admin. It lets me mount my windows partitions using it, and su access. But sometimes it will let me access my ntfs drive on hda1, sometimes it won't . It keeps wanting to use /tmp/disk-conf-hda1 type folders instead of the one's I created for it to use. Here's my fdisk,
what can I put in my fstab to enable r/w to all my win partitions, basically using them as storage from linux side. & Executable too I mean.

Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 3704 29752348+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 7610 19457 95169060 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda3 3705 7609 31366912+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 3705 7609 31366881 b W95 FAT32

Thanks for any help you can provide.
Laesander - Will B.

rickh · 09-17-2007, 11:33 AM

I can find no reference to a utility called diskadmin on Debian. That leads me to believe that it is actually some outside script that you pulled into Debian Stable. That is a fool's errand.

Among other things, "Stable" means "leave it alone" and it will run perfectly. Start screwing around with "improvements" and you're on your own.

Guest4Linux · 09-17-2007, 11:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rickh

I can find no reference to a utility called diskadmin on Debian. That leads me to believe that it is actually some outside script that you pulled into Debian Stable. That is a fool's errand.

Among other things, "Stable" means "leave it alone" and it will run perfectly. Start screwing around with "improvements" and you're on your own.

Disks-admin can be find in gnome-system-tools, also for stable :-)

rickh · 09-17-2007, 12:06 PM

I have gnome-system-tools installed. There is nothing labeled Disk Admin on any menu I can find, and diskadmin or disk-admin entered in the terminal produces, "command not found."

Guest4Linux · 09-17-2007, 12:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rickh

I have gnome-system-tools installed. There is nothing labeled Disk Admin on any menu I can find, and diskadmin or disk-admin entered in the terminal produces, "command not found."

It should be disks-admin :-)

rickh · 09-17-2007, 12:29 PM

debian64:~# disks-admin
-su: disks-admin: command not found
debian64:~#

Guest4Linux · 09-17-2007, 12:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rickh

debian64:~# disks-admin
-su: disks-admin: command not found
debian64:~#

debian:~$ dpkg -S disks-admin
gnome-system-tools: /usr/bin/disks-admin

rickh · 09-17-2007, 01:10 PM

I'm convinced it must have been included in Etch's 2.14 Gnome package, but it's not in the newer versions. Normally, the reason that happens is that a tool was found to be too buggy to keep. Once they're in Stable, they can't be removed. That would explain why the OP is having problems with it.

Code:

debian64:~# dpkg -S disks-admin
dpkg: *disks-admin* not found.


debian64:~# apt-cache policy gnome-system-tools
gnome-system-tools:
  Installed: 2.18.1-1+b1
  Candidate: 2.18.1-1+b1
  Version table:
 *** 2.18.1-1+b1 0
        990 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.14.0-3 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
debian64:~#

Guest4Linux · 09-17-2007, 01:21 PM

Debian:~$ apt-cache policy gnome-system-tools
gnome-system-tools:
Installed: 2.14.0-3
Candidate: 2.14.0-3
Version table:
*** 2.14.0-3 0
500 http://ftp.nl.debian.org testing/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

@ OP can you show us your fstab?