Thanks again.
Status:
With my poor knowledge in partitioning/formatting taken under consideration, I
have decided to play around with both Win98/DOS and Linux fdisk and the problem
persists as follow:
- When partionned under widows (1 extended containing ( 4 logical)), formatted
as FAT32, it cant be read by cfdisk ....
- When partitioned under Linux, (1 extended containing ( 4 logical)), one of the
drive can't be used under Windows ....
Is there any better tools available for Windows or Linux that ease disk
management/partitioning and formating ?
My biggest problem I guess is related to formating more than partition
.............
My goal is configuring this new HD with the less painful solution and make it
read/write enabled for Linux AND Win98.
That's all. ( yes ........... I am fed up !)
And here is my need:
13 Gig splitted as follow:
6 Gigs + 3 Gigs + 3.3 Gigs + 128Meg (linux swap) + 500Megs(windows swap)
Thanks for your support ...............
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Simon, what do you see when you run fdisk (Linux fdisk, NOT Dos/Win)?
>
> You may be mounting the logical volumes instead of the partitions. If you
> make Extended Partitions instead of multiple primary partitions, you must
> mount the correct partitions, not just the logical volume.
>
> For instance, instead of mounting /dev/hdb5, you might have to mount
> /dev/hdb8 or something. In Linux, type "fdisk /dev/hdX" (where X is the
> drive in question) and then type p to print the partition list. You are
> probably going to see quite a few more "paritiions" than you thought you
> created.
>
> It's been quite a while since I've encountered this problem personally, so
> my brain is a little fuzzy. Hope it helps, and I apologize in advance if
> this is totally confusing/totally wrong. :>)
>
> Doug Apel
> Sr. Network Administrator
> Omnipoint Technologies, Inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Gendreau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 12:42 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-config
> Subject: Re: No space left .. new HD ??
>
> Thanks for your help ...
>
> I have simply used the utility called Disk Manager which is the tool
> provided
> by Quantum that can partition a HD greater than 8gigd for my old P200 pro
> (Dell
> Dimension). Per quantum docs, this is the only utility that can do the work
> for
> machines with bios that can't support HD bigger than 8gigs.
>
> This utility did to following:
> - Told me if the bios is compatible with the hd,
> - In my case, not compatible, so it told me to move it from hdc to hdb ,
> which
> I did,
> - Re-Started Win98 and I have been ask if it could install a special driver
> which would enable >8gigs disks connection. Done
> - Opened up an interface to partition with either FAT16 or FAT32.
> - I choosed FAT32 (for all) to make partition greater than 2gigs.
> - Created 4 partitions : ~ 6gigs - 3gigs - 3gigs - 1gig
> -Restarted windows.
> -Explorer than ended up with 5 new drives:
> D: (unreadable) <--- strange isn't it ?
> E: (6gigs)
> F: (3gigs)
> G: (1gig)
> H: (3gigs)
>
> Bear in mind that the only objective is to have partitions larger than FAT16
> -2gigs limit and also being able to READ-WRITE to these partitions when
> running
> Win98 and Linux ......
> So if other partitioning solutions can be applied, I am flexible.
>
> Thanks again !
>
> Ramana Tadepalli wrote:
>
> > the hd brand does not matter
> > send me info about what you did with the win partitioning and in what
> order
> > did you do so. I couldn't get a clear idea. I can help you if I have some
> > more info
> >
> > Simon Gendreau wrote:
> >
> > > I just bought a brand new HD - Quantum Fireball CX 13g for my
> > > Win98/Linux box.
> > >
> > > I have installed/partitioned it under Win98 has FAT32 partitions (4
> > > partitions) using Quantum Disk Manager Utility because my bios is too
> > > old and it can't support more than 8 gigs disk.
> > >
> > > I have ( I guess ..) successfully mounted these drives under linux
> > > (mount -t vfat /dev/hdbX /ppro/pX).
> > >
> > > When I do a df, the result is as follow ( ref. available = 0 for all ?)
> > > :
> > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > > /dev/hda5 913063 431568 434323 50% /
> > > /dev/hdb5 5852244 5852244 0 100% /ppro/p1
> > > /dev/hdb6 2926096 2926096 0 100% /ppro/p2
> > > /dev/hdb7 2926096 2926096 0 100% /ppro/p3
> > >
> > > And I can't create directory due to "no space left on device" error
> > >
> > > What could solve this problem ?
>
> --
> Simon Gendreau
> Pratt & Whitney Canada
> Ext: 7-3152
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> eFax: (508) 632-0747
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Pratt & Whitney Canada
Ext: 7-3152
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eFax: (508) 632-0747
