Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | 40Gig IDE disk wrapping around at 32Gig? | Date | Thu, 07 Dec 2000 09:22:38 -0800 | From | Stephen Williams <> |
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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:
(sectors = 255, heads = 63)
/dev/hda1 1 -- 17 (136521 blocks) /dev/hda2 18 -- 50 (265072 blocks) /dev/hda3 51 -- 3967 (31463302 blocks) /dev/hda4 3968 -- 4865 (7213185 blocks)
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, with patches. I'm ignoring /dev/hda4 for now and I've installed 2.2.17 from source. It seems reliable as long as I ignore /dev/hda4. I haven't tried it w/ 2.2.17 installed.
Am I running into some limit here? Are there any known issues with Linux 2.2.12 or fdisk (or mkfs.ext2) that might relate to this? -- Steve Williams "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. steve@icarus.com But I have promises to keep, steve@picturel.com and lines to code before I sleep, http://www.picturel.com And lines to code before I sleep."
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