On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Dimitris Dracopoulos wrote:
> Hi, > > I have recently got a new hard disk 40GB, in which I decided to install both > Windows98 and Debian, FreeBSD. > (I never wanted to install this Win98 stuff on my machine but job matters > force...) > > I repartitioned the hard disk using slink Debian's cfdisk into a first FAT32 > partition of 12GB and 3 more partitions (second is 12GB BSD, and the other > two, 10 and 5GB Linux). For the cfdisk to work properly with my large disk, > I had to specify the disk geometry that FreeBSD's fdisk returned to me. > > Following that I installed Windows98 on the first partition of 12GB. I > checked with the Windows98 fdisk program, and indeed it finds the 4 > partitions mentioning that the 3 last ones are non-DOS. > > The problem is that when I use the Windows explorer to see what is the > available space for my C drive (FAT32 partition), I get that available for C > are 39GB, i.e. the whole of my hard disk and not just the FAT32 partition. > Despite that, it reports the C volume label to be the same name as that > reported by the Windows98 fdisk! > > So, I wonder what is happening? Is it just a bug in the Windows Explorer or > the actual Windows will expand further than their allocated 12GB partition > when they have no space and delete my Debian and FreeBSD stuff when I > install them there? > > Has anyone installed both Debian and Windows98 on the same large disk and > came across anything similar? > > > Cheers > > Dimitris > > > You should see fdisk(8), section DOS 6.x WARNING. Success, Pavel