unable to open?

I type in fdisk /dev/hda and it comes up with "unable to open /dev/hda" before going back to the root@slackware prompt? Any help appreciated!

What does your output from the "df" command look like?

You have to use the particular device, not just the device type.

hda1 perhaps? or hda0?

ls -la |grep hda in the /dev dir will show you all the logical devices.


You may also fsck filesystems (mountpoints, such as /usr or /tmp).

/dev/hda1 would be a partition on /dev/hda which is the device for the whole disk. I'm wondering if maybe he has SCSI disks and so should be using something like /dev/sda instead.