segmentation fault

I took the hdd out of the external case and connected to the PC's IDE controller. it recognizes it but still same problem. It copies over about 4 gigs and then says I'm out of space. Suggestions?

 

What's the output of

Code:

df -h

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Code:

Filesystem	Size	Used	Avail	Use%	Mounted on
/dev/root	3.4M	28K	3.4M	1% 	/
/ramdisk	198M	5.0M	193M	3%	/ramdisk
/UNIONFS	198M	5.0M	193M	3%	/UNIONFS
/dev/hdc	697M	697M	0	100%	/cdrom
/dev/cloop	2.0G	2.0G	0	100%	/KNOPPIX
/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol00
		286G	55G	217G	21%	/mnt/data
/dev/hda1	37G	48M	35G	1%	/mnt/forty

 

Is that the output with your external HDD mounted?

 

yes. I pulled the hdd out of the case and hooked direct to the IDE controller on the mother board. It's hda1 partition.

 

I removed the 40GB drive and added a USB 160GB drive. I formatted and mounted it and this is what it shows:

fdisk shows
Disk /dev/sdc: 160.0 GB
/dev/sdc1 1 19452 156248158+ 83 Linux

df -h shows
/dev/sdc1 99M 5.6M 89M 6% /mnt/backup

any idea what I'm doing wrong?

 

mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdc1

 

That's for creating the filesystem in the partition. But how did you create the partition? With fdisk? Did you specify that the partition should use the whole space on the HDD?

 

I followed the tutorial here: http://www.ehow.com/how_1000631_hard-drive-linux.html

At the command prompt, type "fdisk /dev/sdc" replacing the "sdc" with the letters for your drive. Upon opening, fdisk may give you a couple of warnings, all of which can be ignored. It then gives you a prompt that looks like this: Command (m for help):

Enter "p" to see the partition table of the drive. The first line of output from the "p" command will also tell you size of the drive. This is a good way to double check that you are working with the correct drive.

If there are any partitions already on the drive they will be listed as the last lines of the "p" command. On our example, this looks like "/dev/sdc1" followed by some information about the partition's size and file system.

To delete any existing partitions, press "d" then enter. It will ask you which partition number you wish to delete. The number of the partition is the number that follows sdc, so on our example system we enter 1. If there are multiple partitions repeat the "d" command for each one. You can always view the partition table again with the "p" command.

Once you have deleted all existing partitions on the drive you are ready to make a new one. Type "n" and hit enter. Then press "p" to create a primary partition. It asks you for a partition number, enter "1." Now you are asked which cylinder the partition should start at, the beginning of the drive is the default, so just hit Enter. Then you are asked for the last cylinder, the end of the drive is default so you can just press Enter again.

Now you are back at fdisk's command prompt. Use the "p" command to check the partition table. You should now see your new partition at the bottom of the output. In the example it lists "/dev/sdc1."

You now need to set the filesystem type for your new partition with the "t" command. You are asked for the Hex code of the filesystem you wish to use. We wll use the standard Linux ext2 filesystem which is "83." If you are doing something special and know of a particular filesystem that you need to use, you can press "L" to see all the codes, which are one or two characters made up of the numbers 0-9 and the letters a-f.

Now just issue the "w" command to write your new partition table and exit fdisk.

 

That sounds correct, but still something seems to be wrong with your HDD...

 

I've tried it with a 40GB PATA and a 160GB SATA. Same problem on both. The 160 had a copy of fedora installed successfully on it with the full 160GB available before I repartitioned and formatted.

 

I went and bought a NEW 300GB hdd and am having the same problem. This is in a totally different machine too.