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Date:	Sun, 16 Jan 2005 01:33:15 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: USB Hard Drive

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In <200501152245.j0FMjpTg029787@smtp.ucsd.edu>, on 01/15/05
at 02:46 PM, sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro) said:

>LVM (under OS/2 Warp) said that the partition table may be corrupt. It
>would not let me create any kind of new volume. It also said the free
>space was only 11807 MB.

This is probably related to running an older verson of os2dasd.dmd or
usbmsd.add.

>I then switched into eCS: LVM there gave the same partition table warning
>and would not let me create a new volume. But LVM said the free space was
>32255 MB.

See above.

>I went back to OS/2 Warp and ran FDISKPM. (FDISKPM will not run under
>eCS).

Don't run fdisk on a system that uses lvm.

>So for all practical purposes my problem is solved -- thank god for
>FDISKPM. I had tried using Dfsee to remove the partition but had no luck.

You should have asked Jan for help.

>There may have been an easier way to do this, but that was the best I
>could figure out on my own.

I would be very careful about archiving data on this drive. I would not
be surprised if you eventually get data corruption.

Steven

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