Re: linux fdisk cannot see the whole disk!

[Gordon Messmer]

Zaigui Wang wrote:
> I have a 13G hard disk. When I use linux fdisk to do the partitions, it
> seems like the maximun cylinder number allowed is 1024, which ends up with
> only about 8G. Where does the rest of the disk go? How to fix this
> problem?

I believe that the kernel has a problem with an integer overflow when
you're using very large disks.  If I understand correctly, your best
solution is to update to kernel 2.2.14.

I happen to have rpms of said kernel at
ftp://duke.eburg.com/pub/linux/redhat-6.x-mycontrib/

MSG


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