compressing c:

[James Mcphee]

I would say do and fdisk -l /dev/sda and show us the  output.  then we can
see what partitions are where and move on to checking filesystems
On Jan 14, 2012 5:11 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know there is filesystem there.... I just wrote it.
> What in the world?
>      dd if=/dev/sda2 bs=16 count=1 | od -a
> says records in and records out  and then so maNY BYTES WERE COPIED IN how
> much time. . Then it says..... oh how stupid I am! I created the d drive on
> a logical partition..... sda5 not sda2
>
> hmmmm.... it didn't mount it read-only but I'm getting other errors wh.en
> I run fsarchiver. This time it says:
>      executing [ntfs-3g -h]. . .
>      command [ntfs-3g -h] returned 9
>      executing [ntfs-3g -o streams_interface=xattr -o efs_raw -o ro
> /dev/sda1 /tmp/fsa/20120114-164053-00]. . .
>      command [ntfs-3g -o streams_interface=xattr -o efs_raw -o ro
> /dev/sda1 /tmp/fsa/20120114-164053-00]. . . returned 0
>      Analising filesystem on /dev/sda1. . .
>      [error5 (and then it gives a directory that my folks deleted before
> they gave my brother this computer)]
>      [error5 more text I don't want to type
>      [executing fusermount]. .
>      command fusermount returned 1
>      executing fusermount -u <file>]. . .
>      command fusermount -u <file> returned 0
>      removed <fsarciver file>
>
> This is so frustrating. I can't create an account on the fsarchiver forum
> so I need to ask you guys.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net>wrote:
>
>> From: Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>
>> > After searching fir an answer I found mount.ntfs-3g so I type in
>> >      mount.ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /c
>> >
>> > and the machine tells me I have an invalid argument. This is strange
>> > because when I mount sda1 with the same command it does it with no
>> > problems.
>>
>> Is there a filesystem on sda2?  If "mount.ntfs-3g /dev/sda1
>> /mnt/somewhere"
>> works and it doesn't work with sda2, then check.  Doing "dd if=/dev/sda2
>> bs=16
>> count=1 | od -a" should return a line or 2 with "N T F S" immediately
>> visible.
>>  If you get nothing but zeroes, then there isn't an NTFS filesystem there.
>> Figure out what is there and go from there.  If there isn't anything
>> there,
>> sda2 isn't an extended partition, and you *want* to have an NTFS
>> filesystem
>> there, mkntfs could do that, but I don't know what Windows would do with
>> it.
>> It tends to get irritated when everything isn't exactly like how it
>> expects.
>>
>> Also, when Windows creates more than one partition on a disk, it generally
>> makes those extra partitions logical, not primary, or at least it *used*
>> to in
>> 2000/XP.  "fdisk -l /dev/sda" and post the results.
>>
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