Greetings, I am running a mix of testing and unstable. I am using the unstable version of fdisk that comes with the util-linux package. I recently installed a new Samsung 60 MB HD into a 1998 "vintage" Celeron machine as /dev/hdb. The BIOS reports the drive as 30 MB. I thought that Debian would see the whole drive, but here is what dmesg reports: ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1420-0x1427, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA hdb: SAMSUNG SP6003H, ATA DISK drive hdb: setmax LBA 117304992, native 66055248 hdb: 66055248 sectors (33820 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4111/255/63, UDMA(33) hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 < hdb5 hdb6 > Here is what Debian's fdisk reports: Disk /dev/hdb: 33.8 GB, 33820286976 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4111 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes I then booted Knoppix, and it sees the whole 60 MB. Here is what fdisk on Knoppix reports: Disk /dev/hdb: 60.0 GB, 60060155904 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7301 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes I then used Knoppix fdisk to create partitions, like this: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 609 4891761 b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hdb2 610 1339 5863725 83 Linux /dev/hdb3 1340 5000 29406982+ 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 1340 1358 152586 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb6 1359 1541 1469916 83 Linux Of course, now when I boot into Debian I get an error message that that the filesystem size of /dev/hdb2 (according to superblock) is 1588426 and the physical size of device is 1465931. What have I done wrong? -- David Raeker-Jordan mailto:david@raeker-jordan.net GnuPG key: 1024D/CD956608
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