On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 12:49 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > > > > diskdrake won't allow you to do that with minimal fuss? > >
<snip> > Nope, because it sees the drive as an 8 GB drive. The problem is that > the partition table/mbr contain information about the logical geometry > of the drive. You can override this by telling fdisk to use the geometry > that you supply. This will work for a Linux only drive, but you run into > problem with the Windows partitions when you do this. > > I am not sure how you tell diskdrake about it. With the fdisk x menu, > you can change the number of heds, sectors/track, and cylinders to see > the entire drive. I guess you could do that, and then use diskdrake on > it. You have to be carefull that you only change the number of > cylinders, or you will end up with corrupted file systems. > > It can be done, but there are better tools to do the job. > > Mikkel I see. Thanks for the info. -- Brant Fitzsimmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BF Computer Consulting
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