On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 13:12, Roberto Giorgetti wrote: > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 r 0 8322 4194288 83 Linux native > /dev/hda2 8322 8842 262080 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda3 8842 16706 3963456 5 Whole disk > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > N.B. I followed the reccomendation to set the type of the third > disk to 'Whole disk'. > Then I run w command to write onto the partition table and I > receive:
The whole point of having the third partition being the "Whole Disk" is that it should be the whole disk. Make it go from 0 to 16706. Don't mount this partition. Then create a /dev/hda4 with the rest of the space > 8842 and use that to mount and put data on. -tom duffy