Did the MCE install on a 250G HHD and....

Talk about anything related to Gentoox MCE.
Post Reply
morph3usX
Novice
Posts: 24
Joined: Mon Aug 02, 2004 3:18 pm
Location: Chicago, Il

Did the MCE install on a 250G HHD and....

Post by morph3usX »

OK, I have did the MCE install on my 250G HHD which was previously partitioned into 7 Partitions (C Thru G). Well After installation I figured that the music and photos I had on G would disappear, well much to my suprise when I loaded XBMC my music and photos were still intact, meaning my G was still there...Now! I wonder if over time this will disappear to over-writing or will not be touched?

On another note I saw that you can change the location to import music from i.e. hda55 and hda56 in which case in linux is known as F and G, so how do you setup to read the fatx files? Because after changing to look for files on hda56 (G) it show a blank screen but when I press back it says "updating music files" but no new files are present....any thoughts!
nobspangle
Gentoox Guru!
Posts: 1681
Joined: Sun Sep 28, 2003 11:59 am
Location: Manchester, UK

Post by nobspangle »

overtime your files will be overwritten, but they may still appear in a file browser.
You can't use files on F or G as this space is in use by MCE
If you keep an open mind, will your brain fall out?
morph3usX
Novice
Posts: 24
Joined: Mon Aug 02, 2004 3:18 pm
Location: Chicago, Il

Post by morph3usX »

even if I reformatted G after the MCE install...because that is what I did and I have things running on G now
nobspangle
Gentoox Guru!
Posts: 1681
Joined: Sun Sep 28, 2003 11:59 am
Location: Manchester, UK

Post by nobspangle »

You can read and write to G but eventually you will end up with data corruption as G occupies the same space as the hda4 partition.

You could unmount the hda4 partition, run fdisk, delete the hda4 parition, remake the hda4 partition to stop at the 2^28 block, create the files system on hda4.

That way you would have a useable G drive, that you couldn't accidentally overwrite.

login over ssh and do
umount /mnt/media
fdisk -u /dev/hda

fdisk is fairly easy to use, the commands a pretty self explanitary. You need to delete partition 4 then create a new primary partition 4. With a default start point, ending on block 268435456

Then set up and mount a new filesystem
mke2fs -j /dev/hda4
mount /dev/hda4
If you keep an open mind, will your brain fall out?
morph3usX
Novice
Posts: 24
Joined: Mon Aug 02, 2004 3:18 pm
Location: Chicago, Il

Post by morph3usX »

do I do this (SSH using putty) from MCE or gentoox? everytime I SSH into MCE it never ask for a login but instead it sits and sits. BTW is the PW and Usr media/xbox? TIA for your help! :D
nobspangle
Gentoox Guru!
Posts: 1681
Joined: Sun Sep 28, 2003 11:59 am
Location: Manchester, UK

Post by nobspangle »

My thought was to do it from MCE but you could also do it from gentoox, differences would be that I don't think /dev/hda4 is mounted so you shouldn't need to umount and then mount at then end.

You need to be root to do this so I would log into ssh using root,xbox
If ssh is taking a long time it usually means your name resolution is bad on your network, give it time and it will let you in.
If you keep an open mind, will your brain fall out?
Post Reply