[NCLUG] RE: Hard Disk Configuration

[John Purser]

I'm not certain if the disk druid is available outside of Red Hat installer
but even using it during the install it only reported about 27 gigs.

Other geometry anomalies (I think) are that it reports
Cylinders: 4,111
Heads:	255
Sectors:	63

While the Drive specs say"
Actual Cylinders: 77,536
Max Cylinders: 	16,383
Heads:		    16
Sectors:		    63

Not sure if I'm seeing a misconfiguration or a difference in nomenclature.

John P.

-----Original Message-----
From: nclug-admin at nclug.org [mailto:nclug-admin at nclug.org]On Behalf Of
Eric Brunson
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 11:24
To: nclug at nclug.org
Subject: Re: [NCLUG] RE: Hard Disk Configuration



Slightly off topic, but is disk druid available outside of the redhat
installer?  That's a pretty nice interface.

e.

* Matt Taggart (matt at lackof.org) [010622 11:21]:
>
> "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.
>
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