On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Bill Wohler wrote: > I totally repartitioned the disks although I left /dev/sda1 as the > DOS partition, only bigger. cfdisk in Linux showed the increased > partition size, fdisk on a DOS boot floppy was also happy, but a > "dir" in DOS showed the old size, and a "format /s" also formatted > based upon the old size. One other hint: when I mount the partition > from Linux, it also shows the old size. > > Any tips as to how I can format (or whatever) the DOS partition so > that the OSs recognize the entire partition? And hopefully do this > without destroying all my work on the other partitions.
is it a 12-bit FAT partition or 16-bit FAT partition? 12-bit FATs can't go beyond 32MB in size (could be wrong on the 32mb, but it's around that). try changing the partition type in linux fdisk to 16-bit FAT. otherwise, delete the partition with DOS FDISK and recreate it before formatting. as with anything involving the partition table, it is a good idea to backup your important data first. this is especially true if you use MS code (like DOS' FDISK.EXE) to do it. craig -- craig sanders networking consultant Available for casual or contract temporary autonomous zone system administration tasks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .