Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 7 Dec 2000 20:43:29 +0100 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: 40Gig IDE disk wrapping around at 32Gig? |
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On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:22:38AM -0800, Stephen Williams wrote:
> During an install of RedHat 6.1 onto a Dell Dimension L600cx, I partitioned > the internal 40gig disk to include 4 partitions. I initially let the disk > druid do it, but it rendered the partition table unreadable. So I used > fdisk and partitioned it with primary partitions like so: ... > Problem is, any attempt to mkfs on /dev/hda4 seems to trash the filesystems > on hda1, hda2 and hda3. It makes an ugly mess. > > RedHat 6.1 installs a 2.2.12 kernel
Large disks require 2.2.14 / 2.3.21 or later.
> with patches.
For vendor patches, consult the vendor.
(And, in case you have more problems: include (i) fdisk version. (ii) kernel version, (iii) dmesg | grep hd.)
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