I cannot believe that I have to reinstall all, destroying the partitions that I already have! I have a lot of data there and it is quite impossible to backup it on other support!
The expert mode plus verify gives: Unused gap - sectors 8912736-16839648 I don't understand if I have something wrong and if not why I cannot create a new partition with the rest of disk! Is there a bug? What else? Thank you for your help. Roberto Giorgetti On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 03:18:24PM -0700 or thereabouts, Thomas Duffy wrote: > On Wed, 2001-09-12 at 13:18, Roberto Giorgetti wrote: > > > Have I to create a /dev/hda3 from 0 to 16706 before? If yes how is > > this possible? I cannot put 0 as "First cylinder" (Value out of > > range). I can only put value equal or greater to 8842 as "First > > cylinder". > > well, I would suggest nuking the partition table and created a new sun > label...choosing the defaults for custom will create 1, 2, and 3. then > you can delete 1 and 2 and make them the correct size for you, maybe > adding part 4. > > if you have data on these drives, then you could try to match the > numbers up exactly and try to remount the partitions once you > reconfigure. I would backup your important stuff before attempting > this, though :) > > the r flag means the partition is mountable...not an issue. you can > turn it off and on using the "c" option in fdisk if you do not like it > there. i don't think it is used under linux. > > you can go into expert mode (x) and verify (v) the partition table is ok > maybe?... > > -tduffy
