mount slave drive

[Chris Aitken]

Tyler Aviss wrote:
> Possibly, or it could just be that the drive packed it in. I've dealt
> with numerous drives at work there the drive just decided to die on a
> whim, or sometimes with the partition table becoming corrupted.
>   
A bit of a coincidence but, okay.
> But, this is fdisk, which I have known to have some very quirky
> results when it comes to partitions defined under other partitioners
> (particularly windows partitions).
>   
I never used fdisk. I just tolf the fedora 7 (installer witht the live 
CD) to stay away from that drive. Man, I should have just physically 
taken it out of the box. 10 GB worth of songs that students have brought me.
> Try "cfdisk /dev/sdb"
> Maybe you'll have more luck.
>   
cfdisk doesn't seem to be on my system or an easy install. Is it worth 
looking for this and installing or is it just a gui interface to fdsick?:

[root at p733 chris]# cfdisk /dev/sdb
bash: cfdisk: command not found
[root at 733 chris]# /sbin/cfdisk /dev/sdb
bash: /sbin/cfdisk: No such file or directory
[root@@p733 chris]# locate cfdisk
[root at p733 chris]# find / -name cfdisk
[root at p733 chris]# yum install cfdisk
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 2000.
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...

Exiting on user cancel.
[root at p733 chris]# kill 2000
[root at p733 chris]# yum install cfdisk
Could not retrieve mirrorlist 
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-7&arch=i386 
error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name 
resolution')>
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: 
%s. Please verify its path and try again

[root at p733 chris]#

> Also, just to double-check, you don't have any card-readers etc
>   
No.

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