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wilsontc
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 Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2003 8:42 am Post subject: mac fdisk |
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hey everyone!
i am installing gentoo on my old g3 that was given to me as a present 
however, i need to know how to partition my disks.
with the fdisk, what do i need to input for a 2.7gb partition? i have 3.6gb free space
eg the first block is "7598320", then it says "length (in blocks, KB (k), MB (M) or GB (G)):"
when i input 2700MB, 2.7gb, 2.7g or 2700m, it then goes to "enter name of partition" when i enter anything (like didums, /dev/hda7) then it simply says "requested base and length is not within an existing free partition"
what do i need to name my partitions?
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reves
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Do you have 3.6GB of free space on an HFS partition or do you have 3.6GB of unpartitioned space on the drive? What does it show if you enter p at the mac-fdisk prompt?
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wilsontc
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since the whole 'block' thing confused me, i just used the apple disk formater on the os9 cd, created my partitions of different file systems, then just used the mke2fs -j command on them. good to go! thanks for replying though
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