I just partitioned a 27-Gb hard drive using fdisk, and it worked
fine. Not sure what version it is -- whatever comes with RedHat
6.1. Here's what fdisk says I have:
hostname% fdisk /dev/hda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 3333.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3333 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 510 4096543+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 511 3333 22675747+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 511 516 48163+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 517 618 819283+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 619 684 530113+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda8 685 695 88326 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 696 706 88326 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 707 3333 21101346 83 Linux
Command (m for help):
This probably doesn't help very much, sorry. And this was on
a desktop system, not a laptop. But fdisk did work fine on my
large hard drive.
Hope this helps a little.
Scott
Richard wrote:
>Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 10:06:07 -0800
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: Richard Armsgtrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Fdisk & Large HD's
>
> I have a 8+Gb hard drive and using Partition Magic have created
>an ~1.4Gb partition for Linux. Fdisk doesn't see it. I sort of remember
>that there are problems using fdisk with large Hard Drives and another utility
>was recommended. Any help?
> Advance thanks, R.H.Armstrong South Colby, WA
>
