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Re: Large disks



On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 02:24:54PM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> 
> > I recently installed slink on a machine with a 15.2GB IBM harddisk
> > and it only recognised about 8GB of the drive.
> 
> Ok - a kernel 2.0 limitation

Oh, right.

> > I went ahead and partitioned the drive normally, leaving the last
> > 4GB for /home. Now I've upgraded to 2.2.x and potato and I want to
> > use the whole of the disk by extending the /home partition. How
> > can I do this?
> 
> Since you knew about the limitation and acted accordingly, I would say
[snip]

The problem with this is that cdfisk still thinks the disk is 8GB:
there's no free space left at the end of the drive.

Why's that?

Thanks,
-- 
alisdair mcdiarmid                            alisdair@wasters.org
[funny how everything i swore i wouldn't change, is different now]


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