[ExtractStream] Re: Cannot extract streams on an expanded A drive

Dale E. Reed Jr. daler at n...
Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:35:37 -0700


> Actually, I think I might have solved my problem. I haven't actually
looked
> at the streams I extracted, so don't take my work for it, though.
>
> What I did was I made backups of /dev/hdb2 and /dev/hdb3, then I recreated
> them as sym-links to /dev/hda12 and /dev/hda13. ExtractStream happily ran
> at that point. I'm going to assume that this is probably fixed in the CVS
> version, I'm running 0.2.

The CVS version does fix that, but I use the same workaround as you. If you
use the TivoMad utility to expand a signel drive, the additional partitions
that
tivomad puts in are not known by ExtractStream .2 or earlier.

Dale