[NCLUG] RE: Hard Disk Configuration

[John Purser]

Okey dokey.

I'm running fdisk under Linux and when I deleted the extended dos partition
ALL the partitions except 1 disappeared.  So I deleted 1.  In for a penny in
for a pound.  Looks like I'm re-installing and that's fine with me.  Should
I create a Dos partition or any other kind of partition before I commit the
changes and get out?  If so what size?

BTW it's saying I've got 66,043,214 "unallocated sectors" now.  Does that
sound right for a 40 gig disk?

John Purser


-----Original Message-----
From: nclug-admin at nclug.org [mailto:nclug-admin at nclug.org]On Behalf Of
Matt Taggart
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 11:21
To: nclug at nclug.org
Subject: Re: [NCLUG] RE: Hard Disk Configuration



"John Purser" writes...

> > 1.) Use fdisk under Linux. Its much nicer and cfdisk is even nicer.
Besides
> > who wants to run DOS?
>
> How?  Is this one if the disk utilities from the floppy images or run it
> under Linux?

fdisk is available on the install/rescue floppies and on any Linux system.
You
need to be root to run it and it lives in /sbin.

> > 2.) Did the RedHat 7.0 install prompt you to partition the disk or did
it
> > just
> > do it/use the existing partitions?
>
> I did not partition the disk.  I brought it home new, installed it, and
put
> the Red Hat CD in the player.  During install it asked me if I wanted to
> manually set the partitions using DiskDruid or Fdisk, I said no.

Hmm, I wonder if the installer left you some space to allocate yourself.
Could
someone familiar with the RH 7.0 installer jump in here?

> > 3.) When doing a new install I almost always blow away the existing
> > partitions and make new ones. You might try that.
>
> Isn't that what fdisk would do?  Let me try the Linux one.  Like I said,
not
> afraid of re-installing.

Yes.

> > 4.) How do you know it's a 40GB disk?
>
> Bought it new and have another just like it running on my W2K desktop.
> COULD be mis-labeled etc. but I'm betting I screwed something up instead.

Yeah, just wanted to make sure we're covering all the bases. Just in case
you
bought it from "Luke's used computer parts" (they do have the best prices in
town though).

> > 5.) Are you sure the disk you're looking at is right one? Is there more
than
> > one disk in the system?
>
> Only hard drive on the system.

Ok good.

--
Matt Taggart
matt at lackof.org


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