Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > Use fdisk to check the partitions. On a recent install of 8.2, I slid > the slider for disk size in diskdrake to the far right (allocate all > disk space) and ended up with a partition that went past the end of the > disk. Was the devils job fixing it.
A valuable tip is to always make a minimum-sized ext2 sentinel partition right at the end of the extended partition area and never use it. This is because there are too many necessary end-of-partition tests for an application to make at end of extended and end of physical disk and end of partition and no-one ever seems to get all of them right. With such a sentinel, the only test an application must make before writing is end of partition. I don't consider diskdrake mature enough to trust yet - this experience confirms that. I still will not use any partitioning tool but Partition Magic, despite its few problems. The Ranish Partition Manager, which comes with the free Boot Manger xosl 1.1.5 (http://www.xosl.org/), is very useful to solve partitioning problems that PM throws up its hands over and gives up. -- Ron. [au]
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