[ILUG] linux fdisk

Vincent Cunniffe vincent at cunniffe.net
Tue Sep 12 19:15:55 IST 2000


Niall O Broin wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 03:10:30PM +0100, Vincent Cunniffe wrote:
> 
> > Is there a size limitation on fdisk? Specifically, the one that ships by default
> > with RH 6.1? I was trying to install Linux on a new 45GB IBM drive yesterday,
> > and fdisk picked it up OK and reported the size, but then refused to write the
> > updated table back to the disk.
> 
> Don't know about fdisk as such, but kernels prior to 2.2.15 (maybe 2.2.14)
> won't work with IDE drives > ~33 GB unless patched. What's the kernel
> version ?

2.2.12-20, default RH 6.1 install CD.

What's the default one on RH 6.2?

Vin




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