RE: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature
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From: Pigeon [mailto:jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 2:12 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 03:57:16PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
> cfdisk -P /hde and cfdisk -P /hdf both just result in rendering /hda
> (rather nicely). Somewhere in the infos I've been warned that linux
> version of fdisk is somewhat buggy (probably in 'info fdisk')
That should be /dev/hde, /dev/hdf. I've just experimented with
cfdisk -P /nonexistent, and indeed the partition table of /dev/hda is
what I get.
Re cfdisk vs fdisk, I generally use cfdisk to alter partition tables,
fdisk when I simply want to read them.
> A closing note in the debian v3r1 distribution of 'info cfdisk'
> indicates that it does not currently support multiple disks
I guess that probably refers to LVM or RAID arrays. It doesn't have a
problem with simply having more than one hard drive.
Indeed! cfdisk /dev/hde and cfdisk /dev/hdf are what is required.
Interesting about my problem in accessing the fat32 partition on /hde,
when I run cfdisk on this drive (WD 160GB, all available in Windows XP,
formatted using the WD utility), I get "FATAL ERROR: Bad primary
partition 1: Partition ends after end-of-disk"
So your comment about standard kernel "mostly" support for the 160GB WD
drive appears to be on target. One gets the impression that WD has done
some sort of jury-rigging to provide support for the full 160GB because,
as I previously indicated, when I use native Windows partition support
to partition the second drive (which WD suggested by email when their
utility would not run for the second drive), I only got 120GB. And the
linux kernel has no complaints about this second drive, either in cfdisk
or in routinely accessing the 137.21GB in two partitions
I have a recollection of somewhere reading that in normal mode 120GB is
the maximum that is natively supported
There is a cfdisk tab "Maximize" which when highlighted says "Maximize
disk usage of the current partition (experts only). I don't feel too
expert today so I think I'll proceed in the spirit of AG Ashcroft's
quotation about his grandfather's carpentry prowess
--
David
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