Hard Drives and Kernal Source

Krikket krikket at gothpoodle.com
Sun Dec 28 00:29:11 UTC 2003


On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
> Krikket wrote:
>
> >Has anyone else had problems getting Fedora to recognize their hard drives
> >at full capacity?  I have a 20 gig drive that the BIOS recognises as 20
> >gig.  I had it working at 20 gig under Windows and SuSE linux, but Fedora
> >only recognizes it as a 2 gig drive.  Suggestions?
> >
> >
> How are you checking the disk size under Linux?
> If as root you enter this command what do you get?
>
> dmesg|grep sectors

Odd.  That *did* show the full drive.  I got the errant value during the
install.

(Now I need to figure out these docs to know how to set /fstab...)

Krikket





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