Re: fdisk message error
Thank you Tom for your answer. (Also to Hakan for his one, I
subscribe his question about the 'r'-Flag meaning).
Maybe I didn't understand well how I have to proceed. In fact
starting from the situation:
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Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 r 0 8322 4194288 83 Linux native
/dev/hda2 8322 8842 262080 82 Linux swap
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I created a /dev/hda4 partition as Linux native. But I received
the same error message when I wrote it to the partition table and
when I reboot the new partition disappears.
Have I to create a /dev/hda3 from 0 to 16706 before? If yes how is
this possible? I cannot put 0 as "First cylinder" (Value out of
range). I can only put value equal or greater to 8842 as "First
cylinder".
Thank you also to Hakan for his reply
Roberto Giorgetti
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 09:27:37AM -0700 or thereabouts, Thomas Duffy wrote:
> 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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