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psychocandy
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:41 am    Post subject: Partimage of Sun disk Reply with quote

Works fine for /, /usr, /var partitions but not for /opt.

Gives the error message :-

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The file system of [/dev/hda6] is
[-unknown-], and is not supported


Can't see why this partition should be any different ????

Any ideas?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

post fdisk -l /dev/hda
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 255 sectors, 38307 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4080 * 512 bytes

   Device Flag    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1             0       251    512040    2  SunOS root
/dev/hda2           251       753   1024080    7  SunOS var
/dev/hda3             0     38307  78146280    5  Whole disk
/dev/hda4  u        753      1004    512040    3  SunOS swap
/dev/hda5          1004      2259   2560200    4  SunOS usr
/dev/hda6          2259     14809  25602000    6  SunOS stand
/dev/hda7         14809     33287  37695120    0  Empty
/dev/hda8         33287     38307  10240800    0  Empty
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Note - I've tried a few Sun types for the /dev/hda6 partition.....
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Think I've worked out what it is....

For some reason, it looks like partimage won't work with UFS disks over 4Gb in size.

I've created a new partition and filesystem 1Gb in size and that seems to work.

Bit of a blow that...
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