on Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 08:44:12PM -0700, Mike Hunt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > I had recently tried to install Debian on a computer containing a 200 > GB harddrive. However, during cfdisking of the Debian install process > cfdisk fails to see past approximately 130 GB of hard disk space. I'm > suspecting this is because it is an old version of cfdisk (later > versions of cfdisk seem to see the whole drive). So, does anyone here > know how to work around this problem so I can use all of my hard disk > space with Debian? Thanks for your help!
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Thank you.
See the Large Disk HOWTO. There's a history of successivly larger disk
sizes which require different mechanisms for handling what was initially
a 528 MiB limit for HD sizes.
For disks beyond 137 GiB, the HOWTO doesn't provide specific guidance,
though a good overview is here, in general, you want 2.4.18 or better
kernels:
http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/maxtor-160.html
Peace.
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