Just used cfdisk instead of fdisk and it worked.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Homer Shimpsian
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 1:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FW: [expert] 7.7G Limit on HD? no..
Well, there is a 20GB already on there even a 8.5 G partition.
And I
On the original HD: (has more partitions)
blocks = 19,687,657 on the 8.5 part /dev/hda2
start 51 end 2501
On the new HD:
blocks = 8,241,344 on the 7.7 gig part /dev/hdd1
start 1 end 16352
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundryphys=(1,254,63) should be
(1,15,63)
So, the new HD has a CHS setting problem, When I first plugged it in it was
formatted to 35GB on three partitions, one of them windows which I could see
in Linux. Then I fdisked it and fs2ext'd(sp?) it. and only got 7.7.
Thanks for the help Gentlemen. Hey, maybe we'll be able to backup our
desktops today afterall! <grin>
-----Original Message-----
From: D. Stark - eSN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 11:11 AM
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Subject: RE: [expert] 7.7G Limit on HD? no..
Got LBA on in BIOS? What does your BIOS see it as?
Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
eSupportNow
xt 8952
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Homer Shimpsian
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 1:39 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] 7.7G Limit on HD? no..
Is it possible that I can learn how to enable all 45 Gigs on my hard drive
in the next 3.5 hours?
I installed this sucker and followed the directions on fdisking and
formating ext2.. but it only shows up as 7.7 Gigs. I suspect it has
something to do with inodes.
Can anyone point me to some docs or let me know how to break this barrier?
I'm suprised that Mandrake 7.1 doesn't autodetect this.
