Fedora 4 maxtor 160Gb 30 gb missing;

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 15:00, Bill Rees wrote:
> I've had the same problem and discovered that fdisk will only make a max 
> partition size of around 130GB. The only way around it I've found is to 
> format the disk during a graphical install. I've heard rumors that a 
> 'fixed' fdisk exists but don't know. Also some other partitioning tool 
> may do what you want.

Ummm....:

# fdisk -l
 
Disk /dev/hda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/hda2              14        1415    11261565   83  Linux
/dev/hda3            1416        2817    11261565   83  Linux
/dev/hda4            2818       30401   221568480    5  Extended
/dev/hda5            2818       30401   221568448+  8e  Linux LVM
 
Disk /dev/hdc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1               1       30401   244196001   fd  Linux raid
autodetect
 

I think hda was done by an FC3 install but hdc was a normal fdisk
under either FC1 or FC3.  There may be some bios limits on older
machines involved.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com