IBM 75GB IDE hdd partitioning

From: Iwao MAKINO (makino@hpc.co.jp)
Date: Wed Jul 26 2000 - 21:36:15 PDT

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    Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:36:15 +0900
    From: "Iwao MAKINO" <makino@hpc.co.jp>
    Subject: IBM 75GB IDE hdd partitioning
    

    Few days ago, Stefan suggested to use YaST to partition the hdd.

    As far as we accomplished, we were able to label as 1 large partition

    # mke2fs /dev/hdc
    look like there are partition a w/ BSD disklabel partition

    # mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc /mnt
    (when /dev/hdc1 used, you can mount, but after reboot, it will not)

    size was recognized correctly:
        Ex.
        Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
        /dev/hda2 19253493 5102606 13172623 28% /
        /dev/hdc 73889880 20 70136448 0% /disk1
        /dev/hdd 73889880 20 70136448 0% /disk2

    quote start-----------------------------------------------------------
    I use two 36 GB disks. I also was unable to partition them, but I could
    mke2fs on the whole disk. I now mount the top devices directly:

    Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sdb 34443777 316217 32349236 1% /usr/local0
    /dev/sdc 34443777 9406953 23258500 29% /usr/local1

    It seems to be a problem with fdisk
    quote end------------------------------------------------------------

    So, we are able to partition... but

    YaST can not be used still, please teach me correct way of using them w/
    larger IDE hdd.

    So far, I could not create normal Linux partition table and therefore, we
    are unable to setup any RAID configs.

    Also, since I can not partition them w/ YaST, I am still not able to install
    system on this 75GB IDE hdd from IBM.

    If anyone has good story, please let list know.

    Best regards,

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