On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 07:18 -0800, Timothy Payne wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 09:40 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 02:04:43AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >How is it supposed to psychically know this? Fdisk certainly > > > > wouldn't have any such magic powers. > > > Who said it did? What I'm saying is that it totally ignored the > > > existing fdisk setup partitions and carved out its own from whole > > > cloth. > > > > Did you get an error dialog about the partition table? If so, this is the > > bug with parted and the 2.6 kernel. Not a disk druid design flaw. > > Is this why my FC3 no longer understands the geometry of my drives? > That may be a result of the FC3 installation bug with disk geometry and LBA. > Tim... > >