On Tuesday 07 September 2004 11:37, SW wrote:
> Hi Reuben:
<snip>
> The data is fine on my drive. fdisk doesn't show any partitions but I can
> retrieve and write data to the drive. fstab mounts it fine...
OK, now I'm confused too :). So you claim you can read and write data just
fine to the drive, and I assume you can do any other operations too (ls, cd,
write text files, etc). Back to your original post, you mentioned that your
"Backup script" complains that "Disk /dev/hde doesn't contain a valid
partition table".
What is this Backup script ? what does it do? what's the script ?
I'm still baffled however by the fact that fdisk cannot print you the
partition table.
> I just
> sometimes can't umount the drive because I get device busy, even though
> nothing is writing to the hard drive.
You'll get that even when you only open a directory in the drive (eg: cd
/Backups, not necessarily writing anything). Make sure you don't have any
terminal or application that open a directory to /Backups before you try to
umount it ("man lsof" maybe helpfull too).
RDB
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Reuben D. Budiardja
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN
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