/bckupdrv how big?

[wattst-dxuVLtCph9gsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org]

Quoting Chris Aitken <caitken-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org>:

> Chris Aitken wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > I'll try a reboot.
>
> Still nothing:
>
> [root at a800 pauline]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/hdb
> Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF
> disklabel
> Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
> until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
> content won't be recoverable.
>
>
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 13410.
> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
>    (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by
> w(rite)
>
> Command (m for help):
>
> <snip>

At this point, short of physically sitting at the computer, I'm stumped.  From
the looks of the output, it looks like you didn't create a partition table. 
Before formatting, printing the partition table in fdisk should have shown the
partition if everything had been done correctly.

Tom Watts
wattst-dxuVLtCph9gsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org

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