Subject: Re: hformat doesn't work anymore...
From: Ben Stanley (bds02@uow.edu.au)
Date: Sun Mar 10 2002 - 20:43:50 MST
If that's really the case then it's different from every other Linux
program I've worked with...
I'd be using /dev/sdb5
The error message seems to be saying that it can't open a partition on
/dev/sdb. That is to be expected - sdb is the raw device. But hformat
needs a partition, and those are called /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb2, /dev/sdb3,
etc. It sort of is two separate fields, but you need to join them together.
My YD box is in MacOS atm (mol doesn't work properly for me), so sorry I
can't check.
Ben.
John Nelson wrote:
>
> According to the documentation, these are two separate fields. And the
> raw device name is /dev/sdb.
>
> -- John
>
>
> Stefan Jeglinski wrote:
>
>>> I tried to format an HFS partition on a disk with a Yellow Dog
>>> partition
>>> set but hformat bombs out with an error:
>>>
>>> [john@guanine /]# hformat /dev/sdb 5
>>> hformat: /dev/sdb: partition not found (Invalid argument)
>>
>>
>>
>> Well, no one's pointed this out yet, but your command as written
>> can't possibly work. There can be no space between "sdb" and "5". Is
>> this the problem?
>>
>>
>> Stefan Jeglinski
>
>
>
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