Right now I’m using my Eee PC 900 with Fedora (LXDE). I started Palimpsest Disk Utility (using beesu) and tried to delete the “CDROM” partition from my 4 GB Lexar thumb drive (Live USB created using these directions, GNOME section). Ended up getting this error:
Error erasing: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_del_partition: device_file=/dev/sdc, offset=0
Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=4009754624)
MSDOS_MAGIC found
looking at part 0 (offset 0, size 722468864, type 0x83)
new part entry
looking at part 1 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
new part entry
looking at part 2 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
new part entry
looking at part 3 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
new part entry
Exiting MS-DOS parser
MSDOS partition table detected
got it
Error: Invalid partition table - recursive partition on /dev/sdc.
ped_disk_new() failed
What to do…? At first I tried just deleting the contents via PCManFM, but that just gave me an error about it being read-only, and I couldn’t change it…
You should be able to manipulate the partitions by inserting it into any running Linux machines and using fdisk (or other) partition tools.
Also, fdisk under Win may work - not sure, no experience.
Disk /dev/sdc: 4009 MB, 4009754624 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3824 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8c71ad6e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 689 705536 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdc1: 722 MB, 722468864 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 689 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8c71ad6e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1p1 * 1 689 705536 83 Linux
Then when I try the mkfs line:
mkfs.fat: No such file or directory
Am I missing a package or something? Something misconfigured?
Also, are you paid for this moderator job? I see you everywhere answering people’s questions. You’ve solved a good number of my problems, IIRC.