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Re: 9GB drives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Admin)
Fri Sep 1 17:41:59 1995
From: Admin <linux@greenie.com>
To: jduersto@kendall.mdcc.edu (Jason Duerstock)
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 23:15:43 +0800 (SST)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9509010054.B4500-0100000@kendall.mdcc.edu> from "Jason Duerstock" at Sep 1, 95 00:40:06 am
According to Jason Duerstock :
>
> On Thu, 31 Aug 1995, Evan Willett wrote:
>
> > I have 9GB seagate, which works fine with the 1542CF, but any SCSI
> > supported by linux should work.
> >
> > With fdisk v2.0a, I'm only able to use 8064 cylinders(about 8.3GB) of
> > the 8669 cylinders. Any ideas on utilizing all of the disk space?
>
> If you're going to use the entire drive for linux, I don't see why you
> can't just "mke2fs /dev/sdb" and use the whole thing without a partition
> table. I posted a message about it before and nobody came up with any
> reason why this couldn't/shouldn't be done.
>
> Jason Duerstock
> jduersto@kendall.mdcc.edu
> jasond@mdcs2.cs.mdcc.edu
>
Has anyone done the above? Please post your replies. Thanks.
Daniel
