Using hdparm

shiladitya_biswas · n00b Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 13

Hi,
I read an URL article on hdparm. I have a question regarding hdparm. I have a single 100 GB IDE hard disk in my computer. I have partitioned it so that WinXP is sitting on /dev/hda1 occupying 20 GB. hda2, 3,4 are free till now. hda5 is a 51 GB FAT32 data storage area. 22 GB is unallocated. I want to install Linux and Solaris 10 on the remaining 22 GB. i.e further partition into 2, 10 GB chunks. So if I use hdparm should I use it with /dev/hda or with /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3, etc. Will I lose data if I run hdparm on /dev/hda1 where XP is installed ?
Thanks
Shiladitya

Sadako · Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 1:58 am Post subject:

hdparm operates on physical disks, not individual partitions, so it must be run on hda.

It won't affect the windows installation at all, so you don't need to worry.
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mark_alec · Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 4:47 am Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Kernel & Hardware.