can access only 13 gb out of 40 gb hard drive from rh 9.0
i have a 40 gb hdd installed as pri. master on my system. i installed rh 9. 0 on it. everything works fine. but i can only access around 13 gb of my hdd. 5 gb / 5 gb /home 384 mb swap 3gb as fat32 which i have mounted on /mnt/fat32 how do i access the rest of my hdd.
i have a 40 gb hdd installed as pri. master on my system. i installed rh 9.0 on it. everything works fine. but i can only access around 13 gb of my hdd.
5 gb /
5 gb /home
384 mb swap
3gb as fat32 which i have mounted on /mnt/fat32
how do i access the rest of my hdd. its not a partitioning problem. because i did mkfs.msdos to make the fat32 partition. it only gave me the above mentitioned 3 gb.
5 gb /
5 gb /home
384 mb swap
3gb as fat32 which i have mounted on /mnt/fat32
how do i access the rest of my hdd. its not a partitioning problem. because i did mkfs.msdos to make the fat32 partition. it only gave me the above mentitioned 3 gb.
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Did you use fat32 (lba) partition type c if you go into fdisk and list parttion types.
fdisk /dev/hdx (x = to the device you want to check)
then type m for help or p to print the partition table you should see what it is.
should look something like this.
Quote:Disk /dev/hda: 13.6 GB, 13662609408 bytes255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1661 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1660 13333918+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
fdisk /dev/hdx (x = to the device you want to check)
then type m for help or p to print the partition table you should see what it is.
should look something like this.
Quote:Disk /dev/hda: 13.6 GB, 13662609408 bytes255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1661 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1660 13333918+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
mkfs.msdos will usually make a fat 12 or 16 partition and automatically determine the size, unless you specifiy the size and fat type in the command line. So, the issue is that it made a fat 16 filesystem and determined the size, based on those limitations. You need to use fdisk, as suggested to make the fat 32 filesystem, or use other partitioning software.
I bet if you look at fidsk for the drive, it will list the partition that you made as a fat 16 filesystem.
I bet if you look at fidsk for the drive, it will list the partition that you made as a fat 16 filesystem.
