Re: fdisk message error
On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 13:12, Roberto Giorgetti wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> N.B. I followed the reccomendation to set the type of the third
> disk to 'Whole disk'.
> Then I run w command to write onto the partition table and I
> receive:
The whole point of having the third partition being the "Whole Disk" is
that it should be the whole disk. Make it go from 0 to 16706. Don't
mount this partition.
Then create a /dev/hda4 with the rest of the space > 8842 and use that
to mount and put data on.
-tom duffy
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