Howto partition HD inside DB

[yellow]

Hello,
I've got a dreambox 7000 with official 1.09 in flash.
I would like to repartition the hard disk drive which is inside as follows:
1)75 GB for records
2)64 MB for swap
3)5 GB for multiboot images

The problem is that I cannot find fdisk command.
fdisk does exist on 7020 maybe because there's something more than busybox there.
Anyone has an idea? How can I partion hd without fdisk?

[noggie]

Originally Posted by yellow

Hello,
I've got a dreambox 7000 with official 1.09 in flash.
I would like to repartition the hard disk drive which is inside as follows:
1)75 GB for records
2)64 MB for swap
3)5 GB for multiboot images

The problem is that I cannot find fdisk command.
fdisk does exist on 7020 maybe because there's something more than busybox there.
Anyone has an idea? How can I partion hd without fdisk?

Install miniroot7000. That will give you fdisk.

Seriously, most images will include "sfdisk". It's maybe not as user-friendly as fdisk, but technically it's actually a little bit better. If you have linux on your PC, your linux installation will probably include a man-page for sfdisk.

[yellow]

Originally Posted by noggie

Install miniroot7000. That will give you fdisk.

Seriously, most images will include "sfdisk". It's maybe not as user-friendly as fdisk, but technically it's actually a little bit better. If you have linux on your PC, your linux installation will probably include a man-page for sfdisk.

Thanks mate!

From sfdisk manual:
"sfdisk has four (main) uses: list the size of a partition, list the partitions on a device, check the partitions on a device, and - very dangerous - repartition a device." Wooh, dangerz! ;-)

[yellow]

Originally Posted by yellow

Thanks mate!

From sfdisk manual:
"sfdisk has four (main) uses: list the size of a partition, list the partitions on a device, check the partitions on a device, and - very dangerous - repartition a device." Wooh, dangerz! ;-)

Well, I hope I have done the right partitioning, now I will have to format, but that's 2 ec.
If this could help someone, here is how I did it

~ > sfdisk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc -uM << EOF
> ,75000
> ,64,S
> ;
> EOF
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ...
OK

Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 158816 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 secto rs/track
Old situation:
Units = mebibytes of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End MiB #blocks Id System
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 0+ 78167- 78168- 80043263+ 83 Linux
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
New situation:
Units = mebibytes of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End MiB #blocks Id System
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 0+ 75000- 75001- 76800023+ 83 Linux
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 75000+ 75064- 65- 66024 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 75064+ 78167- 3103- 3177216 83 Linux
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
Warning: no primary partition is marked bootable (active)
This does not matter for LILO, but the DOS MBR will not boot this disk.
Successfully wrote the new partition table

Re-reading the partition table ...

If you created or changed a DOS partition, /dev/foo7, say, then use dd(1)
to zero the first 512 bytes: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo7 bs=512 count=1
(See fdisk(8).)
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