[Tfug] hd info

[Nicolas Lopez]

On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 02:23:56AM -0700, Robert D Zeigler wrote:
> Thanks for the help. One more question:
> 
> I have 2 ide drives, one on hda and the other on hdc. Everything is fine
> on hda. Hdc, however, is another story. It used to be partitioned. To make
> a long story short, I had to repartition it. (Don't ask... it really is a
> very long story). However, for some reason, it's like the kernel is still
> looking at the old partion table (even after a reboot). what should be a
> 10 gig partition hdc1, for instance, is showing up as a 50 meg partition
> (hdc1 -used- to be a partition for /boot.). Any clues as to how to
> convince linux that the partition really -is- 10 gigs, and not 50 megs? ;)
  Did you actually reformat those partitions, or just change the length?
I'm guessing you have created a new filesystem and are now just mounting the
old 50M filesystem with room to spare.

  - Nick Lopez
    kimo_sabe@atdot.org
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