On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Dale Snell wrote: > Ah, okay, I didn't realize this was for your laptop. Yeah, Windows can do > some odd things, sometimes. But if you've re-written the partition table > that shouldn't be a problem. It sounds to me like something created a > really small filesystem in sda1, rather than the full 300 Gig partition. > Why this would happen, I don't know -- I'm just guessing, here.
Dale, I think you've made a very good guess. > BTW, you might want to invest in one of those little 2.5" hard drive > enclosures that hook up to USB. That way you could check the drive from > your regular system, without having to open it up. > :-) I highly recommend them, especially if you've got a laptop. I have a unit that lets me attach 3.5", 2.5" and SATA drives to a USB port. But, I ain't gonna' take apart the new laptop. For the past 3/4-hour the laptop's been formatting sda1 checking for bad blocks. I re-partitioned it so sda1 (/) is 200G at ext3, sda2 (swap) is 100M, and sda3 (/home) is 299G of ext3. I'm sure the latter will run overnight. :-) As long as sda1 is formatted and ext3 is put on it I am confident that there will be sufficient room for the OS. I switched from Red Hat to Slackware in 2003 and this is the first time I've had a new drive tell me there's insufficient space to load the OS. Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
