tyme Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 (edited) Why is his / partition on /dev/sdb1? That surely means it is on a second hard disk? Does the machine have two disks? Has it been installed to some external device?Could have to do with where on the IDE cable the hard drive is attached, i.e. if the CD drive is on the same cable before it, or even if it just happens to be slave. It doesn't matter much as long as it's mounting and referencing it correctly. Edited July 23, 2008 by tyme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Berr Posted July 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 Do you have two HDD? Yes sorry I do have two hard drives, one runs MS stuff and the other is reserved to teach me how to kick the habit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 I would suggest that you reinstall your system. I think it will be the easiest and safest way for you to fix this. When you get to the drakX partitioning wizard, select 'custom disk partitioning'. How much RAM does your system have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Berr Posted July 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 4gig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 I don't see anything close to 4.4GB in /var/log, but I can't see it all in that pic. Â You don't? Â Look again :P Â /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog are 2GB each Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 (edited) /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog are 2GB eachI thought the same thing, and then did some math. They're actually 20MB (rounded up, if you use 1024 bytes = 1KB, it's 19.668MB). given, that's still a freakishly large log file. Edited July 23, 2008 by tyme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Berr Posted July 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 4 Gig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog are 2GB each I don't believe they're that large, are they? :) Â tyme beat me to it. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Berr Posted July 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 I don't believe they're that large, are they? :) Â tyme beat me to it. :P Greg tried to reinstal but got this screen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 At what point did that happen, as soon as you booted the DVD or what? Â Can you hit Alt+F3 or Alt+F4 and take a pic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Berr Posted July 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 Screen shots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 Try unplugging your Sony Walkman or whatever else is attached to USB, then try again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkerr82508 Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 He probably copied the DVD contents to the HD during install. He just needs to delete /var/ftp/pub/Mandrivalinux. This is a common problem if the user accepts automatic partitioning. Â JIm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 He probably copied the DVD contents to the HD during install. That's probably what happened jkerr. I didn't think of that, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Berr Posted July 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 That's probably what happened jkerr. I didn't think of that, thanks! He may have unwittingly copied the contents to the hd during install but only if prompted. Walkman unplugged and tried again but hangs at same place. Copies of screen attached. So how does on do fdisk using Linux or is there a more complicated way to clear partitions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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