Re: Large disks
On 14-Nov-1999, Dave Sherohman <esper@usinternet.com> wrote:
> 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?)
>
Use it to try out new filesystems: ie reiserfs and coda
Pete
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