On 14-Nov-1999, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alisdair McDiarmid said: > > The problem with this is that cdfisk still thinks the disk is 8GB: > > there's no free space left at the end of the drive. > > > > Why's that? > > I had the same problem a while ago running a Potato system with a homemade > 2.2.9 kernel and a 9 Gb drive. Windows could see the entire disk, but > cfdisk insisted that it was only 8 Gb. A later version of cfdisk enabled me > to partition the remainder of the disk, but mkswap and mke2fs wouldn't > initialize it for me... > > Anyhow, I finally got it working by adding the line > > linear > > to the global (top) section of/etc/lilo.conf. Now the only problem is that > I've got a 534 Mb partition that I can't decide where to mount, so it's just > sitting there, still unused... (Any suggestions?) > Use it to try out new filesystems: ie reiserfs and coda
Pete