On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 11:43 -0800, jdow wrote: > From: "Ian Chapman" <packages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: > > > >>> Its really very irritating that they keep making disks bigger and > >>> bigger and software never seems to know what to do with them :-). > >>> > >> Try parted. Make sure you make the extended partition go to the end of > >> the disk and then fill up the space in between. Also, fdisk in Debian > >> will allow you to go beyond 15 (I have 26 total on /dev/hda). > > > > That's normal though, ATA/IDE disks aren't subject to the same > > limitations in Linux. > > I remember getting rather annoyed at the "'oids" at RedHat when they > substituted a crippled fdisk for the one that works right. It still > leaves me annoyed even though I do not need it to be the full up > version except VERY rarely. (At least put in a commandline parameter > that says "I really know what I am doing so let me be "an ass" if I > want to. I accept the consequences.") I haven't used FC6 yet, fdisk isn't there or just crippled? <sigh> Is NOTHING sacred? Ri -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
