Oh, ya. Sorry about that -- time I got some new glasses!Sylvander wrote:Hey, I notice I reported in the title, that it was TestDisk that gave that report.
No. At least it is not a priority right now. We have something bigger to chase.Sylvander wrote:I'd need to attempt to retrace my steps and see if I encounter that message again.
Is that really necessary?
Oh dear, no. It should print some messages and exit back to the command prompt, like it did for you on Tuesday.Sylvander wrote:Then entered w to write, and the console closed.
Should it do that?
But it shouldn't close the terminal window.Sylvander wrote:Code: Select all
Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered! Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. Syncing disks. #
(Note: if you run fdisk from the menu, it will close the window. To see the messages it prints before it exits, it needs to be run from a terminal window (e.g., urxvt).)
It seems to me I remember that w would sometimes not exit gracefully. Since it worked for you on Tuesday, perhaps its failure today was a fluke. Probably not, but it might be worth trying to change the type one more time. I know this is probably getting a bit tedious, but if you can get it to work, it might be easier than trying other things.
I'm going to dig up a flash drive and see if I have similar problems trying to change its partition table.
The write, if it had worked, would write to the flash drive. So it should be readable immediately -- no save to the save file is necessary.Sylvander wrote:Would that write only take effect after a reboot WITH SAVE of the session changes?
I notice that when I re-run "System->Pdisk->fdisk" on sdb1, and enter the command p, the Id=b and System=w95 FAT32!
That is a possibility, although it is a little more complicated. For instance, there should be a backup partition table somewhere which also would need to be changed, so I'll have to go see where that lives.Sylvander wrote:4. "The CHS values on your partition table do not agree with the LBA values.
Might we attempt to change so as to correct the CHS values?
Can you give me instructions to follow?
I'll dig up a flash drive and do some experiments. In the meantime, you might try using fdisk once more to change the partition type, if you've not yet run out of patience with fdisk. If it works it could save us some time.