-----Original Message----- From: Pigeon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 2:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
