Re: Large disks

1999-11-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
It's packaged for potato so it would be easy to make a slink deb. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/ext2resize.html Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is also packaging GNU Parted which is at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted > ext2resize by Lennert Buytenhek. > http://freshmeat.net/appin

Re: Large disks

1999-11-15 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 07:47:43AM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > esper >Hadn't thought of that... Are there any reliable tools out there for > esper >resizing e2fs partitions? (I already gave it all of the space that > hadn't > esper >been claimed by my ro

Re: Large disks

1999-11-15 Thread aphro
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote: esper >Hadn't thought of that... Are there any reliable tools out there for esper >resizing e2fs partitions? (I already gave it all of the space that hadn't esper >been claimed by my root and swap partitions...) partition magic 4 and 5 .. v5 comes wit

Re: Large disks

1999-11-15 Thread Peter Ross
On 14-Nov-1999, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jean-Yves BARBIER said: > > You could enlarge it a bit, and use it to make your images for CDz > > Hadn't thought of that... Are there any reliable tools out there for > resizing e2fs partitions? (I already gave it all of the space that

Re: Large disks

1999-11-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
Jean-Yves BARBIER said: > You could enlarge it a bit, and use it to make your images for CDz Hadn't thought of that... Are there any reliable tools out there for resizing e2fs partitions? (I already gave it all of the space that hadn't been claimed by my root and swap partitions...) -- Geek Co

Re: Large disks

1999-11-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 04:18:47PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > .. > 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?) You could enlar

Re: Large disks

1999-11-14 Thread Peter Ross
On 14-Nov-1999, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 wi

Re: Large disks

1999-11-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
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 enti

Re: Large disks

1999-11-10 Thread aphro
easiest way is to copy the data over, delete the partition and re make it. or you can grab powerquest partition magic 4 or above. nate On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: alisda >I recently installed slink on a machine with a 15.2GB IBM harddisk alisda >and it only recognised about 8G

Re: Large disks

1999-11-10 Thread aphro
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: alisda >> Ok - a kernel 2.0 limitation alisda > alisda >Oh, right. 8GB barrier is a not a limitation in at least 2.0.36 ..doubt it is in earlier ones too, i believe it is a LILO issue, it is not detecting the parameters of the drive correctly. Upgrad

Re: Large disks

1999-11-10 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone 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? That's a good question. The best thing I can come up with is that the kernel, when it read the

re: Large disks

1999-11-09 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>I recently installed slink on a machine with a 15.2GB >IBM harddisk >and it only recognised about 8GB of the drive. >I went ahead and partitioned the drive normally, >leaving the last >4GB for /home. Now I've upgraded to 2.2.x and potato >and I want to >use the whole of the disk by extending the

Re: Large disks

1999-11-09 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 02:24:54PM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > I recently installed slink on a machine with a 15.2GB IBM harddisk > > and it only recognised about 8GB of the drive. > > Ok - a kernel 2.0 limitation Oh, right. > >

Re: Large disks

1999-11-09 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I recently installed slink on a machine with a 15.2GB IBM harddisk > and it only recognised about 8GB of the drive. Ok - a kernel 2.0 limitation > > I went ahead and partitioned the drive normally, leaving the last > 4GB for /home. No