re: Large disks
>I recently installed slink on a machine with a 15.2GB
>IBM harddisk
>and it only recognised about 8GB of the drive.
>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?
I think you mean that you had several partitions and
that the last one was the home partition. I don't
know if you can extend the partition without loosing
data. You can of course back up the /home partition,
delete it, re-create it as a larger partition with the
same starting address, re-create the file system, and
then restore it. I think that the latest version of
partitionmagic will extend linux partitions BUT
partitionmagic only runs under windows so your system
must dual boot.
BTW your original problem was that under the 2.0.x
kernels the linux fdisk tools only see the first 8.4gb
of a larger disk. I 'solved' this problem by booting
a RedHat 6.1 cd (2.2.x kernel)and using it's disk
partition software to create my partitions, then I
booted my debian cd and installed slink. If you know
the actual start and end cylinders you could also just
give cfdisk or fdisk these numbers under slink and
then it will see the whole disk. I've done that too.
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