Trouble with Partitions

I've had a 50Gb Windows Vista partition on my Mac working for ages. I now want to delete the whole partition, and start again with a 100Gb Windows 7 partition. I'm having problems deleting the existing Windows partition.
I've used Disk Utility to delete the Windows side, but not every time I relaunch Mac I get a 'Local Disk' icon appear on my desktop which is 50Gb, and I cannot run the BootCamp Assistant because it tells me that the disk is already partitioned.
How do I get rid of the old partition and start afresh with BootCamp?

Ok, I am currently making a full HD image copy onto an external hard drive using the Disk Utility on the Snow Leopard install disk.
Once this is complete, I presume I can reformat the HDD to a fresh single partition and then re-install my Mac machine from the external drive. Once that is done, I intend to use Boot Camp to start all over again with my new 100Gb Windows partition.
Is that right? Are there any flaws in my plan? Do I use the 'Erase' option in Disk Utility to reformat the HDD?

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Troubles editing tables with partitions

I'm running SQL Developer 1.5.3 against Oracle 10/11 databases and SQL Developer has trouble with my partitioned tables. Both the schema owner and sys users experience the same problems.
The first time I try to edit a table, I get an "Error Loading Objects" dialog with a NullPointException message. If I immediately turn around and try to edit the table again, I get the Edit Table dialog. That's annoying but there's at least a work-around.
Next, if I select the Indexes pane, I can view the first index but selecting another one results in an "Index Error on <table>" error dialog. The message is "There are no table partitions on which to define local index partitions". At this point, selecting any of the other panes (Columns, Primary Key, etc.) results in the same dialog. While the main Partitions tab shows my partitions, I cannot see them in the Edit Table dialog. In fact, the Partition Definitions and Subpartition Templates panes are blank.
Does anyone else see this behavior? Version 1.5.1 behaved the same way so it's not new.
Of course I've figured out how to do everything I need through SQL but it would be handy if I could just use the tool.
Thank you.

Most of my tables are generated from a script so this morning I decided to just create a very basic partitioned table. It contained a NUMBER primary key and a TIMESTAMP(6) column to use with partitioning. That table worked just fine in SQL Developer.
At that point I tried to figure out what is different about my tables and I finally found the difference... Oracle Spatial. If I add an MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY column to my partitioned table, SQL Developer starts having issues.
I also have the GeoRaptor plugin installed so I had to wonder if it was interfering with SQL Developer. I couldn't find an option to uninstall an extension so I went into the sqldeveloper/extensions directory and removed GeoRaptorLibs and org.GeoRaptor.jar. GeoRaptor doesn't appear to be installed in SQL Developer anymore but I still see the same behavior.
It appears that there is an issue in SQL Developer with Oracle Spatial and partitioning. Can someone confirm this?

Trouble with mounted partitions (root twice)

Since a few days ago, I'm experiencing troubles with my partitions, like / being mounted twice. I'm using systemd instead of Init, mtab is symlinked to /proc/self/mounts
df output:
rootfs 103212320 13629136 84340304 14% /
udev 10240 0 10240 0% /dev
run 10240 344 9896 4% /run
/dev/disk/by-uuid/11331a92-bb2a-4aa2-a376-de9c2d12d6a3 103212320 13629136 84340304 14% /
tmpfs 2011176 0 2011176 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 2011176 176 2011000 1% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 2011176 0 2011176 0% /media
run 10240 344 9896 4% /var/lock
run 10240 344 9896 4% /var/run
/dev/sda1 369251368 61124056 289370348 18% /media/Akai-Data
As you can see, / is mounted twice.
my /proc/self/mounts looks like this (in fact, is):
http://pastebin.com/bLi22Cps
my partition layout inherit from the time where I had both Windows and Arch Linux installed (so I was low on free primary partitions) is: sda1 350 GB ext4, sda3 8 GB swap, sda4 98 GB ext4. So I have no /home and / in different partitions as sda1 is where I have all my data.
my /etc/fstab:
devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/Akai-Data ext4 defaults,realtime,data=writeback 0 2
/dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda4 / ext4 defaults,user_xattr,realtime,data=writeback 0 1
Also, my /tmp folder has not being cleaned in 5 days. ¿Does it not supposed to be cleaned at every boot/shutdown (I have booted few times in five days)?
So, my troubles here are:
/ is mounted twice, and /tmp is not being cleaned. Any clue on this?
Also, to me, my/proc/self/mounts seems weird, aside from the fact that I think there is why / is mounted twice. Could someone check that?
Thank you in advance.
Last edited by ethail (2011-05-10 16:34:09)

The only place I have found that is on my /boot/burg/burg.cfg file:
linux /boot/vmlinuz26-pf root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/11331a92-bb2a-4aa2-a376-de9c2d12d6a3 ro fastboot quiet logo.nologo resume=/dev/sda3 init=/sbi/e4rat-preload
But as far as I can remember, that has been always there since I started using burg instead of grub (half of a mont ago, maybe more). And never got troubles with that.
Also, rc.local has everything comented out
EDIT: have I to assume that the burg entry is leading to troubles?
Last edited by ethail (2011-05-10 21:37:04)

Trouble with a Hdd message

Hi,
I am having trouble with my HP Pavilon dm1. My daughter dropped it yesterday and now I am getting the HDD message.
I waited several minutes for Windows to boot and eventually the windows cursor appeared on the screen. It went through the system like it was going to start but ran the message below and then a blue background (it wasn't plain blue though, it was like a wallpaper) and the command prompt thingy came up stating exactly this:
Microsoft <R> Windows Script Host Version 5.8
Copyright <C> Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
REM Model:
REM Caption: Hitachi HTS725050A9A364 ATA Device
REM DeviceID: \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0
REM SCSIBus: 0
REM SCSIPort: 0
REM Partitions: 4
REM PNPDeviceID: IDE\DISKHITACHI_HTS725050A9A364____________________PC40CH0A\5&3299 DDFF&0&0.0.0
REM
REM
REM [RESULT]
REM couldn't perform the screening because couldn't detect 2 HDDs on this system
C:\system.sav\util\MBRINST.EXE /INI C:\system .sav\util\MBR.INI /U /Q
ECHO MBRInst returned %ErrorLevel% >> C:\system.sav\logs\MBRINST.LOG
I ran the hard drive and other digonistic's and could not come up with anything...
I left the PC on for another half an hour, and now it is running a Start-up repair.. Any ideas??
Thanks

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Trouble with export and import

I am having trouble with export and import
here is what I did...
exp "'/ as sysdba'" PARFILE=parfile.txt
PAFILE
TABLES=user1.Table1
file=Table1_1006.dmp
LOG=Table1_1006.log
query="where to_char(processeddate,'YYYYMMDDHHMISS') between to_char(to_timestamp('1911-01-01 00:00:00','YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS'),'YYYYMMDDHHMISS') and to_char(to_timestamp('2011-10-06 16:46:26','YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS'),'YYYYMMDDHHMISS')"here is my log from export
set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set
About to export specified tables via Conventional Path ...
Current user changed to user1
. . exporting table Table1 16019049 rows exported
EXP-00091: Exporting questionable statistics.
EXP-00091: Exporting questionable statistics.
EXP-00091: Exporting questionable statistics.
EXP-00091: Exporting questionable statistics.
EXP-00091: Exporting questionable statistics.
EXP-00091: Exporting questionable statistics.
EXP-00091: Exporting questionable statistics.
EXP-00091: Exporting questionable statistics.
Export terminated successfully with warnings.Then I started importing
/database2/rdbm15> imp "'/ as sysdba'" file=Table1_1006.dmp fromuser=user1 touser=user1 tables=Table1 log=imp_Table1_1006.log
Import: Release 10.2.0.5.0 - Production on Thu Oct 6 19:57:01 2011
Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.5.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
Export file created by EXPORT:V10.02.01 via conventional path
import done in US7ASCII character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set
. importing user1's objects into user1
IMP-00015: following statement failed because the object already exists:
"CREATE TABLE "Table1" ("APPROVALTRACEID" VARCHAR2(64), "REQUESTOR"
"EID" VARCHAR2(9), "EID" VARCHAR2(9), "FIRSTNAME" VARCHAR2(32), "LASTNAME" V"
"ARCHAR2(32), "MIDDLEINITIAL" VARCHAR2(8), "TIER" VARCHAR2(3), "JOBTITLE" VA"
"RCHAR2(64), "JOBCODE" VARCHAR2(10), "EMPLOYEETYPE" VARCHAR2(2), "CONTRACTOR"
"TYPE" VARCHAR2(2), "EMPLOYEESTATUS" VARCHAR2(2), "COSTCENTER" VARCHAR2(10),"
" "COSTCENTERDESCRIPTION" VARCHAR2(50), "CONTRACTENDINGDATE" VARCHAR2(8), "A"
"CCOUNTSTATUS" VARCHAR2(2), "LOGINID" VARCHAR2(70), "APPLICATIONGROUP" VARCH"
"AR2(50), "APPLICATIONNAME" VARCHAR2(50), "APPLICATIONID" VARCHAR2(12), "LEV"
"EL1" VARCHAR2(512), "LEVEL2" VARCHAR2(512), "LEVEL3" VARCHAR2(512), "LEVEL4"
"" VARCHAR2(512), "LEVEL5" VARCHAR2(512), "PROFILECODE" VARCHAR2(50), "PROCE"
"SSEDDATE" DATE, "APPROVERMANAGEREID" VARCHAR2(9), "APPROVERMANAGERDELEGATEE"
"ID" VARCHAR2(9), "APPROVERT4MANAGEREEID" VARCHAR2(9), "APPROVERT4MANAGERDEL"
"EGATEEID" VARCHAR2(9), "APPROVERAPPOWNEREID" VARCHAR2(9), "APPROVERAPPOWNER"
"DELEGATEEID" VARCHAR2(9), "PERFORMEREID" VARCHAR2(9), "NATIONALID" VARCHAR2"
"(30), "COUNTRYCODE" VARCHAR2(9), "PASSPORTID" VARCHAR2(20), "DATEOFBIRTH" V"
"ARCHAR2(15), "CITYOFBIRTH" VARCHAR2(15), "VENDORNAME" VARCHAR2(50), "VENDOR"
"MANAGERNAME" VARCHAR2(50), "VENDORMANAGERID" VARCHAR2(9), "VENDORADDRESS1" "
"VARCHAR2(100), "VENDORADDRESS2" VARCHAR2(100), "VENDORSTATEPROVINCE" VARCHA"
"R2(15), "VENDORCOUNTRYCODE" VARCHAR2(9), "VENDORZIPPOSTALCODE" VARCHAR2(9))"
" PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE(INITIAL 4076863488 "
"NEXT 1048576 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT) "
" LOGGING NOCOMPRESS"
Import terminated successfully with warnings.but I did not get rows to database2
[server1]database2
/database2/rdbm15> sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.5.0 - Production on Thu Oct 6 19:59:17 2011
Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.5.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
SQL> select count(*) from user1.Table1;
COUNT(*)
 0
SQL> exit
SQL> select * from v$version;
BANNER
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.5.0 - 64bi
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.5.0 - Production
CORE 10.2.0.5.0 Production
TNS for HPUX: Version 10.2.0.5.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.5.0 - ProductionEdited by: user3636719 on Oct 6, 2011 5:23 PM

user3636719 wrote:
Thanks for the reply...
Old EXP IMP doesnt have capability to append the row, since you're using 10g use datapump instead. use option TABLE_EXISTS_ACTION=APPENDso my import should be like this
imp "'/ as sysdba'" file=Table1_1006.dmp fromuser=user1 touser=user1 tables=Table1 log=imp_Table1_1006.log TABLE_EXISTS_ACTION=APPEND
Did you look up the command line syntax and control options for imp?
You should make it a habit that whenever anyone - especially a stranger on the web - gives you a bit of code or references a command or init parm or any some such, the VERY FIRST thin you should ALWAYS do is look it up for yourself and see exactly where and how it is used and what it means. That is how you grow beyond having to be spoon fed every little thing and become more self-sufficient.
If you had, you would have seen that there is no TABLE_EXISTS_ACTION option for imp and seen that it is an option for impdp. And realized that exp and imp are NOT the same thing as expdp and impdp.
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Spend a few minutes just getting familiar with what is available here. Take special note of the "books" and "search" tabs. Under the "books" tab you will find the complete documentation library.
Spend a few minutes just getting familiar with what kind of documentation is available there by simply browsing the titles under the "Books" tab.
Open the Reference Manual and spend a few minutes looking through the table of contents to get familiar with what kind of information is available there.
Do the same with the SQL Reference Manual.
Do the same with the Utilities manual.
You don't have to read the above in depth. They are reference manuals. Just get familiar with what is there to be referenced. Ninety percent of the questions asked on this forum can be answered in less than 5 minutes by simply searching one of the above manuals.
Then set yourself a plan to dig deeper.
- Read a chapter a day from the Concepts Manual.
- Take a look in your alert log. One of the first things listed at startup is the initialization parms with non-default values. Read up on each one of them (listed in your alert log) in the Reference Manual.
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I'm having trouble with my computer, I boot it up and within a few minutes it freezes and I have to restart it, I tried updating it to the latest mavericks but it won't finish the installation it's stuck at the end, what can I do to fix this?

As stated I'm having trouble with my computer, I boot it up and within a few minutes it freezes and I have to restart it, I tried updating it to the latest mavericks but it won't finish the installation it's stuck at the end, what can I do to fix this? I need it for homework tonight.

Crowntheme,
you can try this: boot your MacBook Pro into Recovery mode by holding down a Command key and the R key as it starts up. Once the Mac OS X Utilities menu appears, select Disk Utility. On the left-hand side of the Disk Utility window, select your internal disk’s boot partition (typically called “Macintosh HD”). On the right-hand side, press the Verify Disk button if it’s not greyed out; if it is greyed out, or if it reports that errors were found, press the Repair Disk button. Once the verification/repair is completed, exit Disk Utility and select Restart from the Apple menu to restart in normal mode. Does it still freeze after a few minutes?

Trouble with booting system after upgrade udev= systemd

Hi everybody,
I have been trouble with my system since last upgrade (udev => systemd)
My issue is something like this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1106157 but advice from this discussion doesn't work.
When system booting, *immediately* (very fast, too fast) display login screen after start parsing hook [udev]
Of course, i can't login - type username and i have redraw screen again on all /dev/tty* - i have no chance to type password.
Many invalid logins suspend init for 5 minutes and allow me see display error due stop redraw screen - libpam.so.0 cannot find.
I suspect that, partitions aren't mount (this fast login screen doesn't have even hostname). I have a 4 discs, with many partitions - mounting
this take a some time (+- 5 secs).
In rescuecd, i can mount all partitions and chroot. In chroot all works fine - /bin/login (i was checked authorization on all users),
paths and pams are ok. Of course i try ,,default rescue trick'': `pacman -Suy linux udev mkinitcpio` and 'mkinitcpio -p linux' on rescuecd
but nothing it's changed after reboot. I checking grub config, and unpack and check initramfs-linux.img - all ok.
In my mkinitcpio.conf ofcourse i have MODULES="ext3" (for my filesystems).
Please help.

crab wrote:
This may or may not be related... but I saw this message just now during an upgrade:
(121/168) upgrading mkinitcpio [###################] 100%
==> If your /usr is on a separate partition, you must add the "usr" hook
to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and regenerate your images before rebooting
And am wondering what the message means by if /usr is on a separate partition - separate partition to what? /boot? / ?
I have my /usr partition in the same partition as / (but /boot is in a different partition)
Logic tells me I'm safe (haven't rebooted yet), as / is "master", and anything else is a separate partition, and I have /usr on the same partition as /.
Do you guys have separate /usr and/or /boot partitions? As stated in first sentence this may not be related, but looks important...
It means separate from /. So yes, you're right, you are "safe" from having to do anything with this message on your system.
And to the other people on this thread: make sure you do have all your packages uniformly updated, including any pam-related AUR or ABS-build packages. libpam and the pam module directory (.../lib/security) were moved from /lib to /usr/lib a little while back, so make sure that anything that cares about where these may be have been updated so they aren't confused by this move.
Last edited by ataraxia (2012-06-03 22:40:22)

Trouble with LaCie disk and time machine

HI everyone,
I've been having trouble with using time machine to back-up to my 1 TB LaCie drive (purchased 5/12, unfornuately I was dumb and didn't register the drive and no longer have the box with the serial number and there is no serial number on my drive. The only problem I had up until the end of August was that every so often the LaCie drive (using my FW 800 port) would unmount after waking up from sleep.
The end of August the drive unmounted for no reason while I was on the computer doing a task. Could not get the LaCie drive remounted (rebooting, etc. etc.) To make a long story short, ended up calling apple care who took me through resetting my SMC and PRAM to no avail. Was booted to higher level of support who walked me through trying to repair my drive using the disk utiltiy. When that didn't work, she walked me through erasing and reformatting the LaCie drive and starting a new time machine back-up. Every thing ok until about ten days ago.
Last week, when I woke my iMac up from sleep, I got an error saying that the disk was not ejected properly and I could not mount the drive. Restarting did nothing, the disk did not mount. Shutting down and rebooting seemed to solve the problem and the disk was mounted. Every so often I've had the problem with the disk unmounting after waking up from sleep before. So, I changed my energy sleep preferences. At the end of the day when I am done, I'd unmount the LaCie drive before putting the Mac to sleep using the apple menu.
Today I came in to start my day, plugged the drive in and it would not mount. Tried rebooting nothing. Went into the disk utility, at first the LaCie drive passed the disk verify (6:26:25 and 6:26:38). Then I went into repair disk on the indented drive at 6:27:13, I wasn't sure what it is was doing, thinking that it had hung, I stopped the repair at 6:27:24. Exited disk utility, and the LaCie drive mounted. But I was getting a read only error when I tried to back-up using time machine. So, I went back into disk utility at 6:27:35, when I verified the disk (indented disk), I got an error saying the disk need to be repaired. After several minutes the disk could not be repaired. So, I erased and reformatted the drive. Ran a time machine back-up and it seemed to back-up everything on my hard drive. Just ran another verify disk and it passed.
Is the drive failing? Have some other back-ups of my documents, my address book, iCal and am going to make a backup of some of my pref files and important e-mail files and am going to do some more back-ups after I am done.
Have reached out to the women at apple care whom I talked to last August, but don't expect to hear back from her for at least 24 hours.
Here is my disk utility log
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Verifying partition map for “LaCie”
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Starting verification tool:
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Checking prerequisites
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Checking the partition list
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Checking for an EFI system partition
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Checking the EFI system partition’s size
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Checking the EFI system partition’s file system
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500: The partition map appears to be OK
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:26:25 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Verifying partition map for “LaCie”
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Starting verification tool:
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Checking prerequisites
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Checking the partition list
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Checking for an EFI system partition
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Checking the EFI system partition’s size
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Checking the EFI system partition’s file system
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500: The partition map appears to be OK
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:26:38 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:27:13 -0500: Disk Utility started.
2013-11-07 06:27:21 -0500: Verifying and repairing partition map for “LaCie”
2013-11-07 06:27:21 -0500: Starting repair tool:
2013-11-07 06:27:21 -0500: Checking prerequisites
2013-11-07 06:27:21 -0500: Checking the partition list
2013-11-07 06:27:21 -0500: Checking for an EFI system partition
2013-11-07 06:27:21 -0500: Checking the EFI system partition’s size
2013-11-07 06:27:21 -0500: Checking the EFI system partition’s file system
2013-11-07 06:27:23 -0500: Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces
2013-11-07 06:27:24 -0500: Reviewing boot support loaders
2013-11-07 06:27:24 -0500: Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions
2013-11-07 06:27:24 -0500: Updating Windows boot.ini files as required
2013-11-07 06:27:24 -0500: The partition map appears to be OK
2013-11-07 06:27:24 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:27:24 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:27:35 -0500: Verifying volume “LaCie”
2013-11-07 06:27:35 -0500: Starting verification tool:
2013-11-07 06:27:35 -0500: Checking file system2013-11-07 06:27:35 -0500: Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.2013-11-07 06:27:35 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:27:35 -0500: Disk Utility stopped verifying “LaCie”: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.
2013-11-07 06:28:05 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:28:13 -0500: Verify and Repair volume “LaCie”
2013-11-07 06:28:13 -0500: Starting repair tool:
2013-11-07 06:28:13 -0500: Checking file system2013-11-07 06:28:13 -0500: Volume repair complete.2013-11-07 06:28:13 -0500: Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.2013-11-07 06:35:05 -0500: Stopped by user
2013-11-07 06:44:56 -0500: Disk Utility started.
2013-11-07 06:45:20 -0500: Verifying volume “LaCie”
2013-11-07 06:45:20 -0500: Starting verification tool:
2013-11-07 06:45:20 -0500: Checking file system2013-11-07 06:45:20 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2013-11-07 06:45:20 -0500: Checking extents overflow file.
2013-11-07 06:45:20 -0500: Checking catalog file.
2013-11-07 06:45:59 -0500: Missing thread record (id = 5057741)
2013-11-07 06:46:06 -0500: Checking multi-linked files.
2013-11-07 06:46:19 -0500: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2013-11-07 06:46:38 -0500: Invalid directory item count
2013-11-07 06:46:38 -0500: (It should be 0 instead of 4)
2013-11-07 06:46:38 -0500: Invalid volume directory count
2013-11-07 06:46:38 -0500: (It should be 166840 instead of 166841)
2013-11-07 06:46:38 -0500: Checking extended attributes file.
2013-11-07 06:47:05 -0500: Checking multi-linked directories.
2013-11-07 06:48:10 -0500: Checking volume bitmap.
2013-11-07 06:48:12 -0500: Checking volume information.
2013-11-07 06:48:12 -0500: The volume LaCie was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
2013-11-07 06:48:12 -0500: Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.2013-11-07 06:48:12 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:48:12 -0500: Disk Utility stopped verifying “LaCie”: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.
2013-11-07 06:48:12 -0500:
2013-11-07 06:50:02 -0500: Verify and Repair volume “LaCie”
2013-11-07 06:50:02 -0500: Starting repair tool:
2013-11-07 06:50:02 -0500: Checking file system2013-11-07 06:50:02 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2013-11-07 06:50:02 -0500: Checking extents overflow file.
2013-11-07 06:50:02 -0500: Checking catalog file.
2013-11-07 06:50:41 -0500: Missing thread record (id = 5057741)
2013-11-07 06:50:48 -0500: Checking multi-linked files.
2013-11-07 06:51:02 -0500: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2013-11-07 06:51:20 -0500: Invalid directory item count
2013-11-07 06:51:20 -0500: (It should be 0 instead of 4)
2013-11-07 06:51:20 -0500: Invalid volume directory count
2013-11-07 06:51:20 -0500: (It should be 166840 instead of 166841)
2013-11-07 06:51:20 -0500: Checking extended attributes file.
2013-11-07 06:51:47 -0500: Checking multi-linked directories.
2013-11-07 06:52:55 -0500: Checking volume bitmap.
2013-11-07 06:52:56 -0500: Checking volume information.
2013-11-07 06:52:56 -0500: Repairing volume.
2013-11-07 06:52:56 -0500: Missing directory record (id = 5057741)
2013-11-07 06:52:56 -0500: Look for missing items in lost+found directory.
2013-11-07 06:53:10 -0500: Rechecking volume.
2013-11-07 06:53:10 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2013-11-07 06:53:10 -0500: Checking extents overflow file.
2013-11-07 06:53:10 -0500: Checking catalog file.
2013-11-07 06:53:16 -0500: Incorrect number of thread records
2013-11-07 06:53:22 -0500: Checking multi-linked files.
2013-11-07 06:53:35 -0500: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2013-11-07 06:53:53 -0500: Invalid directory item count
2013-11-07 06:53:54 -0500: (It should be 5 instead of 6)
2013-11-07 06:53:54 -0500: Invalid volume directory count
2013-11-07 06:53:54 -0500: (It should be 166844 instead of 166842)
2013-11-07 06:53:54 -0500: Invalid volume file count
2013-11-07 06:53:54 -0500: (It should be 1056326 instead of 1056321)
2013-11-07 06:53:54 -0500: Checking extended attributes file.
2013-11-07 06:54:20 -0500: Checking multi-linked directories.
2013-11-07 06:55:25 -0500: Checking volume bitmap.
2013-11-07 06:55:26 -0500: Checking volume information.
2013-11-07 06:55:26 -0500: Repairing volume.
2013-11-07 06:58:06 -0500: Rechecking volume.
2013-11-07 06:58:06 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2013-11-07 06:58:06 -0500: Checking extents overflow file.
2013-11-07 06:58:07 -0500: Checking catalog file.
2013-11-07 06:58:12 -0500: Incorrect number of thread records
2013-11-07 06:58:18 -0500: Checking multi-linked files.
2013-11-07 06:58:31 -0500: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2013-11-07 06:58:50 -0500: Invalid volume directory count
2013-11-07 06:58:50 -0500: (It should be 166844 instead of 166842)
2013-11-07 06:58:50 -0500: Invalid volume file count
2013-11-07 06:58:50 -0500: (It should be 1056326 instead of 1056321)
2013-11-07 06:58:50 -0500: Checking extended attributes file.
2013-11-07 06:59:17 -0500: Checking multi-linked directories.
2013-11-07 07:00:22 -0500: Checking volume bitmap.
2013-11-07 07:00:24 -0500: Checking volume information.
2013-11-07 07:00:24 -0500: Repairing volume.
2013-11-07 07:03:03 -0500: Rechecking volume.
2013-11-07 07:03:03 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2013-11-07 07:03:03 -0500: Checking extents overflow file.
2013-11-07 07:03:04 -0500: Checking catalog file.
2013-11-07 07:03:09 -0500: Incorrect number of thread records
2013-11-07 07:03:15 -0500: Checking multi-linked files.
2013-11-07 07:03:29 -0500: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2013-11-07 07:03:47 -0500: Invalid volume directory count
2013-11-07 07:03:47 -0500: (It should be 166844 instead of 166842)
2013-11-07 07:03:47 -0500: Invalid volume file count
2013-11-07 07:03:47 -0500: (It should be 1056326 instead of 1056321)
2013-11-07 07:03:47 -0500: Checking extended attributes file.
2013-11-07 07:04:14 -0500: Checking multi-linked directories.
2013-11-07 07:05:19 -0500: Checking volume bitmap.
2013-11-07 07:05:20 -0500: Checking volume information.
2013-11-07 07:05:20 -0500: The volume LaCie could not be repaired after 3 attempts.
2013-11-07 07:05:21 -0500: Volume repair complete.2013-11-07 07:05:21 -0500: Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.2013-11-07 07:05:21 -0500: Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.2013-11-07 07:05:21 -0500:
2013-11-07 07:05:21 -0500: Disk Utility stopped repairing “LaCie”: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
2013-11-07 07:05:21 -0500:
2013-11-07 07:09:45 -0500: Disk Utility started.
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500: Preparing to erase : “LaCie”
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500:     Partition Scheme: GUID Partition Table
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500:     1 volume will be erased
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500:         Name        : “LaCie”
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500:         Size        : 999.86 GB
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500:         File system    : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500: Unmounting disk
2013-11-07 07:11:45 -0500: Erasing
2013-11-07 07:11:54 -0500: Initialized /dev/rdisk1s2 as a 931 GB HFS Plus volume with a 81920k journal
2013-11-07 07:11:54 -0500: Mounting disk
2013-11-07 07:11:54 -0500: Erase complete.
2013-11-07 07:11:54 -0500:
2013-11-07 10:38:00 -0500: Disk Utility started.
2013-11-07 10:38:12 -0500: Verifying volume “LaCie”
2013-11-07 10:38:12 -0500: Starting verification tool:
2013-11-07 10:38:14 -0500: Checking file system2013-11-07 10:38:14 -0500: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2013-11-07 10:38:14 -0500: Checking extents overflow file.
2013-11-07 10:38:14 -0500: Checking catalog file.
2013-11-07 10:38:29 -0500: Checking multi-linked files.
2013-11-07 10:38:29 -0500: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2013-11-07 10:38:41 -0500: Checking extended attributes file.
2013-11-07 10:39:04 -0500: Checking multi-linked directories.
2013-11-07 10:39:31 -0500: Checking volume bitmap.
2013-11-07 10:39:32 -0500: Checking volume information.
2013-11-07 10:39:32 -0500: The volume LaCie appears to be OK.
2013-11-07 10:39:32 -0500: Repair tool completed:
2013-11-07 10:39:32 -0500:
2013-11-07 10:39:32 -0500:

I just got a call back from the upper level support person at apple care who had been advising me on my trouble with time machine and my LaCie 1 TB FWD. I had sent her much of the same verbiage as I posted here. As some of you have probably figured out, the verdict is that the drive is probably failing. She says this because I have had to do two erase and reformats. She thought that the intermitant problem that I have had with the drive unmounting when my iMac wakes from sleep could be related to the drive failing.
In the meantime I have a secondary back-up (not using time machine) and the LaCie 1 TB FWD is working for the moment.
Thanks to all who read all my verbiage.
And in the meantime, I've learned something. I marked this question as solved. But I'm open to other things to try.
Message was edited by: njtreehugger minor edits and update

Having alot of trouble with a query

Hey, I'm having trouble with a query for an assignment. The questions states
Find the name of the highest earning employee in each location, excluding managers, salespeople and the president
The problem I'm having is that my query returns the highest earning employee from each location perfectly, but one of those returned is a salesperson, so the next highest earning person in that location should be returned.
We are also not allowed to create a temporary table
Here's my code so far
select
e.first_name,
e.last_name,
e.salary,
l.regional_group
from employee e
inner join department d
on d.department_id = e.department_id
inner join location l
on l.location_id = d.location_id
where e.salary = (select max(e2.salary) from employee e2
inner join department d2
on d2.department_id = e2.department_id
inner join location l2
on l2.location_id = d2.location_id
where l2.location_id = l.location_id
and e.job_id !=672;
the job_id refers to what job title they have
and here's the schema below
Schema
Any help you could give me on this would be fantastic as I have been pulling my hair out over this for the last day.
Edited by: 837562 on 17-Feb-2011 02:14

Maybe you can try the below:
with job_location as
select 1 location_id, 'loc1' regional_group from dual
union
select 2 location_id, 'loc2' regional_group from dual
department as
select 1 department_id, 'dept1' dept_name, 1 location_id from dual
union
select 2 department_id, 'dept2' dept_name, 2 location_id from dual
job_FUNCTION as
select 1 job_id, 'MANAGER' job_function from dual
UNION
select 2 job_id, 'SALES' job_function from dual
UNION
select 3 job_id, 'PRESIDENT' job_function from dual
UNION
select 4 job_id, 'REST_1' job_function from dual
UNION
select 5 job_id, 'REST_2' job_function from dual
employee as
select 1 employee_id, 'a' last_name, 100 salary, 1 department_id, 4 JOB_ID from dual union
select 2 employee_id, 'b' last_name, 200 salary,1, 5 from dual union
select 3 employee_id, 'c' last_name, 300 salary,1, 2 from dual union
select 4 employee_id, 'd' last_name, 400 salary,1, 2 from dual union
select 5 employee_id, 'e' last_name, 500 salary,2, 3 from dual union
select 6 employee_id, 'f' last_name, 600 salary,2, 3 from dual union
select 7 employee_id, 'g' last_name, 700 salary,2, 4 from dual union
select 8 employee_id, 'h' last_name, 800 salary,2, 4 from dual
select
regional_group, employee_id, max_salary
from
select e.regional_group, b.department_id, employee_id, salary, max(b.salary) over (partition by b.department_id order by b.department_id) max_salary
from
employee b,
job_function c,
department d,
job_location e
where
b.job_id = c.job_id and
b.department_id = d.department_id and
e.location_id = d.location_id and
c.job_id not in (1,2,3)
) where salary = max_salary;
"REGIONAL_GROUP"     "EMPLOYEE_ID"     "MAX_SALARY"
"loc1"     "2"     "200"
"loc2"     "8"     "800"

Deep trouble with external HD

Hi everybody, I'm in deep trouble with a 1 TB Samsung external drive.
I have partitioned it in 2, Hear (music) and See (pics and videos).
Now when I connect it to my mac via USB, in the Finder I only see the Hear partition.
Disk Utility at first sees the See partition, shadowed, but doesn't show the number of files and folder. The info window says it is not Journaled, while the info window of Hear says it is partitioned.
I tried to mount it and it says the disk can't be mounted.
I verified the disk and it says in red that the disk must be repaired "invalid B-tree node size".
I repaired it and it says the disk can't be repaired, and that I must backup as much files as I can.
I don't know how to back it up, since Carbon Copy Cloner doesn't not see it neither Time Machine does.
I hope some of you could be of help.
Thanks
F

brilehnhof wrote:
I have set up my primary event library to be on this external drive. It has worked fine in the past.
From your description I'm not sure if you meant that the disk was working OK, then you tried to use it with iMovie and the problem then arose. Was it working OK previously with iMovie, or just with other stuff you have on it?
iMovie works only with external drives that are formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). To check the formatting of your drive, in Finder right-click (or Control-click) on it's name and select Get Info from the pop-up menu.
The disk can be reformatted using Disk Utility, but this will erase everything on the disk, so it will need to be backed up first. If you need to reformat and want help with the process, please post back.
If it's not a reformatting problem, perhaps we can offer other possible solutions.
John

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I am having some trouble with my Toshiba Satelitte A215-S4697 recovery... i get an error 08-064B-0000 Partition creation failed. Can you help?

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Hi all, I am testing Acrobat X for my company and I am having trouble with testing for "send for email review/merge comments". In my last test I made a PDF from InDesing as usual and on my "test" Mac using Acrobat X I opened the PDf and sent it to 3 people for email review. One of the people was using a PC and Acrobat 9 Reader, the other two were using Acrobat X to make comments and send back. I should note that I am using one test machine (iMac) for all three of the Mac reviews, but each individual is logging on with their ID for the network and the email program (entourage).
All three reviewers were able to get the PDF in the email, make comments and then use the "send comments" button to send back to me.
My problem is that when I got all three emails back, and when I logged into the test machine as myself, opened the returned PDFs, I was only able to "merge comments" from one reviewer (from Mac) to my original PDF. With the email from the PC and one email from the iMac, I was UNABLE to merge these two sets of comments. The merge comments button was unavailable, I never got the message about if I wanted to "merge comments" or "No, open this copy only." And when I tried to go through "comments>merge comments onto master PDF" I was not able to see that option anywhere, either.
Sorry for the long explanation, but I want to include as much info as possible to try to get the proper feedback from you all.
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Just to be clear here, when you say that " I should note that I am using one test machine (iMac) for all three of the Mac reviews, but each individual is logging on with their ID for the network and the email program (entourage). " you mean that you have created 3 different users on your mac machine and configured entourage for each of them. If not then please explain this.
Have you tried using any of these:
a) 2-3 Mac partitions for the different users
b) 2-3 different mac machines for the same
c) maybe 2-3 Mac Virtual machines on a Mac main machine
If it is possible can you please try that scenario on any of the above mentioned combinations and let us know the results. This will help us a lot in narrowing down the issue.
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Abhilasha

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Hi, I'm having a problem installing some of the intel drivers on my Y50-70, I had some trouble with my OS and decided to downgrade to windows 7 which ended up needing the Partition type change which wiped the disk, so here I am.I'm on Windows 7 64-bit, I've installed most of the drivers but there are 2 that just aren't working, the only driver I have actively not installed is the webcam driver, because I'm paranoid The drivers that aren't working:Intel Management Engine Interface Driver 9.5.15.1 730-"The setup program failed to install one or more device drivers. Setup will exit."andIntel Video Driver for 64-bit Windows 10.18.10 .3574/6. 16.0.3137- "This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing this software"In my Device manager my current display adapter is listed as:Standard VGA Graphics adapterand I have a few items with yellow alerts, these are:3D Video ControllerEthernet ControllerPCI DevicePCI Simple Communications ControllerAny ideas as to why I can't install either of the Intel drivers?This is driving me nuts, any help will be greatly appreciated. Sorry for the bunched text, apparently the spaces I used made the post complain about invalid HTML, today is not my day.

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About a week ago my mac mini g4 that I've had for less than 3 years, crashed while I was using itunes and playing music off an external usb drive.
As a result there has been trouble with both drives:
*Internal hard drive failure:*
The internal drive would not boot and reported a fatal hardware error, with a SMART failure. Interestingly, when I start up the computer as a firewire target and run the same Disk Utility program, it does not report the fatal error. I was able to reformat this drive and it seems to now be booting and running fine.
*External hard drive failure*
The external hard drive worked intermittently and then died completely a few days later, where it is now unable to mount it at all.
Does this mean I have two failed hard drives? The internal one seems to work fine and has for over a week, even though it still says there was a S.M.A.R.T. failure. When Disk Utility says there was a hardware failure, it prevents me from running the verify/repair functions. Is it possible that the external drive failure was somehow attributed to the internal drive?
I think it is also strange that when I run the Disk Utility using firewire target, the internal hard drive tests fine.
The message I get is:
"This drive reported a fatal hardware error to disk utility. If the drive has not failed completely, back up as much data as you can and then replace it with a working drive."
and at the bottom it says:
"S.M.A.R.T. status: failing"
Meanwhile it works just fine and my other external drive has failed altogether.
I normally wouldn't question this error message, but the fact that the other drive failed more completely at around the same time, and that the error message doesn't show up when I run the disk utility on the internal drive via firewire makes me wonder if there are other factors. It's also just frustrating that I may need to replace both.
Other things I have done is run the Apple Hardware Test, and everything passed. I also tried a PMU reset, and that didn't help.
Should I just replace the internal hard drive or should I look for other problems?
I appreciate any advice on this.
Message was edited by: biz123

I'm not aware of any firmware update for the PPC minis - I've not had any with either of my own that I recall.
Of course future reliability is something you can never really check or fully assess, but the fact the system passes the hardware test tells us that the components which could have been responsible and which are not fairly easy to replace (the logic board, disk controller, PMU are all healthy. RAM could be a problem because the hardware test is not all that capable at revealing RAM issues, but it is also not likely to be the cause of this kind of problem. The PSU is obviously suspect to some degree, but is also replaceable.
While it's not common to suffer multiple drive failures, the fact one was active and the other could easily have been paging would account for the result if either failed in that situation. Bad luck and not easy to reproduce if you tried, but not inconceivable.
The fact that the internal rendered up your files while in FW target disk mode tends to indicate that the reason it wouldn't boot from that drive was not that the drive itself was trashed, but that the drive crashed during use - a circumstance which often creates catalog and file problems, and can certainly cause the system to fail in locating the MacOS install to boot from. In that situation, unless there is physical damage to the drive, it typically can be re-used with a reformat and reinstall, since of course that corrects the kind of catalog/file issues that this sort of crash typically causes. It would be expected to report 'verified' for SMART status though.
There are a few reasons why a damaged external might not appear in Disk Utility, or refuse to mount, some of which are broad;ly similar - a crash causing file or catalog issues. The fact it was FAT32 would complicate the matter to a small degree since if the allocation tables weren't visible to the Mac due to corruption, the system wouldn't have any way to mount the drive. That said, while it would likely be visible to a PC, and may even render up files in data recovery, it wouldn't be reusable itself without a reformat, and could well produce I/O errors in the process. It would usually be amenable to reformatting though it might also need repartitioning depending on the damage done. The overheating you mention may be an indicator of a fault, or it may be that the drive is being pushed to all 3 read attempts with each data block - that would cause it to work very hard! If you have rescue the data you think you can get off it, I'd suggest you try a reformat. If that fails, use a utility such as FDISK to delete all the partitions and recreate them, then try formatting again.
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As it says above, i have been having a lot f trouble with my ipod classic and the latest itunes update, i was unable to sync songs or anything to it and have tried every conceivable 'fix' i could find. i have run an itunes diagnostic and the results are posted below. a major problem is that when i try and view my ipod through my computer it displays nothing at all on the ipod, no files or anything, this may be the problem but i have no idea how it has happened or how i could resolve it.
This ipod holds huge sentimental value and i am loathe to buy a new one! If anybody can help it is greatly appreciated, than kyou in advanced.
Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 1 (Build 7601)
ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K50IJ
iTunes 11.1.5.5
QuickTime not available
FairPlay 2.5.16
Apple Application Support 3.0.1
iPod Updater Library 11.1f5
CD Driver 2.2.3.0
CD Driver DLL 2.1.3.1
Apple Mobile Device 7.1.1.3
Apple Mobile Device Driver 1.64.0.0
Bonjour 3.0.0.10 (333.10)
Gracenote SDK 1.9.6.502
Gracenote MusicID 1.9.6.115
Gracenote Submit 1.9.6.143
Gracenote DSP 1.9.6.45
iTunes Serial Number 0038B8600B98D1E0
Current user is not an administrator.
The current local date and time is 2014-03-21 16:52:39.
iTunes is not running in safe mode.
WebKit accelerated compositing is enabled.
HDCP is not supported.
Core Media is supported.
Video Display Information
Intel Corporation, Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
Intel Corporation, Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
**** External Plug-ins Information ****
No external plug-ins installed.
Genius ID: 2fd81a1f13cf3ff25a8b4f0e8e725116
**** Device Connectivity Tests ****
iPodService 11.1.5.5 (x64) is currently running.
iTunesHelper 11.1.5.5 is currently running.
Apple Mobile Device service 3.3.0.0 is currently running.
Universal Serial Bus Controllers:
Intel(R) ICH9 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2934. Device is working properly.
Intel(R) ICH9 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2935. Device is working properly.
Intel(R) ICH9 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2936. Device is working properly.
Intel(R) ICH9 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2937. Device is working properly.
Intel(R) ICH9 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2938. Device is working properly.
Intel(R) ICH9 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2939. Device is working properly.
Intel(R) ICH9 Family USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 293A. Device is working properly.
Intel(R) ICH9 Family USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 293C. Device is working properly.
No FireWire (IEEE 1394) Host Controller found.

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