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thewickedjester
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 Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 5:27 pm Post subject: HDD Refusing to Partition full ammount of space |
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<edit> Turns out I was being overly cautious, it works find, sorry about that. Please delete this topic if neccissary </edit>
Ok, this is my first go at installing linux on anything aside from my xbox, so its a bit different. I'm reading through the manual and trying to partition, now, a simple fdisk (comman p) shows:
Fdisk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729
ect ect. At any rate, its an 80gb hard drive. When I attempt to partition a 32MB boot drive, it shows Start as 1 and End as 5, Blocks at 40131. Now again, I've not had the pleasure of doing this on a PC before so this could be normal. But on the Handbook it uses a 30gb hdd, and its 32MB boot partition is shown as Start 1, End 14, with 105808+ Blocks. Now that just doesnt seem right, but again, it could be. Thank you in advance for your help, it is greatly appreciated by someone who wants to see more than a blue screen of death every day  |
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cyrillic
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| Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 5:53 pm Post subject: Re: HDD Refusing to Partition full ammount of space |
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| thewickedjester wrote: | | When I attempt to partition a 32MB boot drive, it shows Start as 1 and End as 5, Blocks at 40131 ... But on the Handbook it uses a 30gb hdd, and its 32MB boot partition is shown as Start 1, End 14, with 105808+ Blocks. |
In case you are curious why this happened, the example harddrive in the Gentoo Handbook probably had a different (smaller) number of heads or sectors/track. Different harddrive geometry just means you need a different number of cylinders to make a 32MB partition, nothing to worry about.
BTW, Welcome to the Gentoo Forums.
EDIT : Now that you mention it, it does look like someone tampered with the example to make it look like 32MB when 105808+ blocks would actually be closer to 100MB. Oh well, still nothing to worry about. |
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