Fwd: Re: fdisk message error
Hello,
first of all my condolence to all U.S. citizens, I still can not believe what
happend.
Quoting Roberto Giorgetti <roberto.giorgetti@libero.it>:
> The 9Gb disk of my SUN Ultra 5 machine with Debian unstable is
> not completely used, so I run fdisk /dev/hda and p command
> receiving:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 63 sectors, 16706
> cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 r 0 8322 4194288 83 Linux native
> /dev/hda2 8322 8842 262080 82 Linux swap
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Then I create a third partition in this way:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 r 0 8322 4194288 83 Linux native
> /dev/hda2 8322 8842 262080 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda3 8842 16706 3963456 5 Whole disk
> --------------------------------------------------------------
The third partition has to be the "whole" disk. Your whole disk
starts at 8842 not at 0.
I still dont know what the 'r'-Flag means, can someone enlighten me?
regards
--
Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz, FHT-Esslingen
<hakan@lisas.de>
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