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[Ashwin Mathur <question77443@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #77443 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/77443

    Status: Answered => Open

Ashwin Mathur is still having a problem:
Hi Tom,

I get the following error when I open Applications - Accessories -
Terminal and type  sudo fdisk -l   at    ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ prompt.

Luckily I could manage to take a screen shot of the terminal window. Please see the attachment.
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To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -1
fdisk: invalid option -- '1'

Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK     Change partition table
       fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK  List partition table(s)
       fdisk -s PARTITION           Give partition size(s) in blocks
       fdisk -v                     Give fdisk version
Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda
and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7
-u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units
-b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors
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Is it the right thing that I am doing or I am doing something wrong. Glued to your reply and trying in all earnest to folllow to the T.

Cheers !
Ashwin.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: question77443@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:24:40 -0000
> To: ashwin_mathur@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Question #77443]: GRUB Error 18 - URGENT HELP PLEASE
> 
> Your question #77443 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/77443
> 
>     Status: Open => Answered
> 
> Tom proposed the following answer:
> Ok, so you're on the machine that's having troubles which makes this a
> little bit easier.  Please go up to the top taskbar and click on
> 
> Applications - Accessories - Terminal
> 
> and into the terminal/command window/console type
> 
> sudo fdisk -l
> 
> and copy&paste the results into here.  Err, i'm not sure quite how new
> you are to computers, can you use the mouse to copy&paste?
> 
> Good luck and regards from
> Tom :)
> 
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