Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Dec 1999 21:47:54 +0300 (MSK) | From | Khimenko Victor <> | Subject | Re: over 5Gb missing from a 13.5Gb disk |
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On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Khimenko Victor wrote: > > You gave way not enough information to gave you wise answer (what version of > > kernel you are using, what motherboard, what version of hdparm, etc, etc). > > Kernel: 2.2.14pre11. hdparm version 3.6. Motherboard is an Intel SE440BX. > All parts looks like recent enough to handle task... BTW how disk is set in BIOS ? I'm using plain "Auto" setting there.
> > Try to do the following: > > > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 > > > > Then reboot. This way you'll destroy partition table completely and kernel > > will not try to use it to determine size of disk. > > Already tried that, it doesn't help. That was actually the very first > thing I tried.. > Try to use cfdisk and use -c, -h, -s to give it correct information about your disk. The trick is to get correct partition table once... Sometimes cfdisk can do it while fdisk can not...
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