Thank you Tom for your answer. (Also to Hakan for his one, I subscribe his question about the 'r'-Flag meaning).
Maybe I didn't understand well how I have to proceed. In fact starting from the situation: -------------------------------------------------------------- Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 r 0 8322 4194288 83 Linux native /dev/hda2 8322 8842 262080 82 Linux swap -------------------------------------------------------------- I created a /dev/hda4 partition as Linux native. But I received the same error message when I wrote it to the partition table and when I reboot the new partition disappears. Have I to create a /dev/hda3 from 0 to 16706 before? If yes how is this possible? I cannot put 0 as "First cylinder" (Value out of range). I can only put value equal or greater to 8842 as "First cylinder". Thank you also to Hakan for his reply Roberto Giorgetti On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 09:27:37AM -0700 or thereabouts, Thomas Duffy wrote: > 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
