What happened to sda1?

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weepc
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What happened to sda1?

#1 Post by weepc »

Had a problem installing to sda1, so I had to erase it to do a clean install. Now I can't locate it to format it. How do I remount sda1?
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davids45
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#2 Post by davids45 »

G'day weepc,

Can you run a live CD Puppy (or usb Puppy), boot with pfix=ram and once Puppy is running, see what GParted reports if you run it. It should show you what partitions are on your hard-drive.

How did you "erase" sda1, by the way? Did you want to only clear all the data from it (wipe it or reformat it) - "erase" sounds like you have deleted sda1 as a partition, so there is just unformatted space where it was?

If so, just use GParted to re-create sda1 in the unformatted space.

David S.
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#3 Post by Flash »

To rephrase what David S. said: Linux only "sees" filesystems. It can't see empty (unformatted) space. When you deleted the partition you took out the filesystem structure. That's why Puppy doesn't see anything there. Gparted can reformat the empty space.
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#4 Post by d4p »

System/gparted/device/create partition table
hope it is ok
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#5 Post by weepc »

Problem fixed. thanx :D
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