Re: Large disks

[Dave Sherohman <esper@usinternet.com>]

Alisdair McDiarmid said:
> 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?

I had the same problem a while ago running a Potato system with a homemade
2.2.9 kernel and a 9 Gb drive.  Windows could see the entire disk, but
cfdisk insisted that it was only 8 Gb.  A later version of cfdisk enabled me
to partition the remainder of the disk, but mkswap and mke2fs wouldn't
initialize it for me...

Anyhow, I finally got it working by adding the line

linear

to the global (top) section of/etc/lilo.conf.  Now the only problem is that
I've got a 534 Mb partition that I can't decide where to mount, so it's just
sitting there, still unused...  (Any suggestions?)

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