Fedora 4 maxtor 160Gb 30 gb missing;

jdow jdow at earthlink.net
Fri Oct 28 21:46:06 UTC 2005


From: "Bill Rees" <breeze at smsonline.com>

> 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.

The only "fixed" fdisk I know of was "fixed" in the sense of what you
do to a pet you do not wish to procreate. The "fixed" versions have
rather artificial limitations on the number of partitions you can have
on the disk.

{o.o}




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