Re: Partitions on new HDD

[Manish Handa <mhanda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi.
	You can try one more utility called "parted" . I found it very
convenient and whole of my disk is utilized. I had a 20Gb hard disk so i
had to insert linux between two windows partitions due to 1024 cylender
no. requirement of linux.
	parted is a gnu utility and you can download it from gnu.org

--manish

 On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, L Singh wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I've got a new HDD (Seagate ST310212A). I wanted to setup my system on it 
> from scratch. I have the following config:
> 
> P III-450, i440 BX, 64 Megs, Award PnP BIOS
> 
> I want to have my system as dual boot with Win98 and RHL 6.2
> 
> The BIOS shows the disk in LBA mode with 10243 MB.
> 
> Now, when I create the partitions using the FDISK from Win98 startup disk, 
> the total partitions' space is 9766 MB. Where did the rest of space go? 
> Same result is there with disk druid from Zoot CD. The partition info is 
> displayed as:
> 
> +-----------+-----------+------------+----------+
> |   Device  | Required  |  Actual    |   Type   |
> +-----------+-----------+------------+----------+
>      hda1       2047         2047       Win95 FAT32
>      hda5       3106         3106	Win95 FAT32
>      hda6       3090         3090       Win95 FAT32
> 
> Total : 9766 M Used : 8243 M Free : 1523 M
> 
> If I create a swap of 70M, and create Linux Native (/) with "Grow to 
> fill..." set, then all of 1523M is utilised except 1M which it still shows 
> as free. Same thing happens when I try to create one more FAT32 partition 
> from FDISK (m$)
> 
> How should I go about making partitions so that whole of the space is utilised?
> 
> PS ::::>> The only option that I have not tried yet is the Disc Wizard that 
> comes along with the Seagate drives. But that needs a prior installation on 
> Win9x on a separate HDD.
> 
> Thanx in advance 
> 
> 
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