Re: fdisk -- maximum disk capacity

[Travis Bauer]

Do you already have an ext2 partition on the disk?  FDisk does not know how
to hand such partitions.

TB


-----Original Message-----
From: Vijaykumar Krishnaswamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, January 30, 1999 11:38 AM
Subject: fdisk -- maximum disk capacity


>
>hi ,
> i was trying to install linux ( not on  i7k) on a machine with
>12G of harddisk space.I was thinking of partioning it into two so as to
>install linux and win98.But unfortunately the fdisk program on linux does
>not seem to recognize the full disk ( it recognizes only about 8 G, about
>1024 cylinders).why is this and is there a way to correct this.
>
>thanks,
>vijay
>
>
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