Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:03:19 +0100 | From | Wichert Akkerman <> | Subject | Re: over 5Gb missing from a 13.5Gb disk |
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Previously Anton Ivanov wrote: > I would suggest to try the following - force the number of heads, cylinders, > tracks to a proper value before partitioning using the fdisk extended options > (x - expert mode).
Doesn't help. I also tried telling the kernel the proper geometry on bootup (hda=c,h,s), but the real problem appears to be that the kernel gets the disk size wrong: it thinks it's 8Gb instead of 13.5Gb. So whatever geometry you try to use it still won't work..
Wichert.
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