From: hank@Blimp (Hendrik G. Seliger) Subject: Re: Does anyone use >64MB partitions? How? Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 15:06:39 GMT
pcc@s1.gov (Philip C. Cox) writes:
: I have a maxtor 340, with 125 allocated to DOS. When I try to setup 64MB
: for linux, then use the rest (150MB) as extended file system, mkefs has
: a cow and seg faults. I would just make a bunch of 64MB partitions, but
: I do not have enough primary dos partitions to handle what I have left.
:
: Can someone give me a hint on how to use the 215MB I have left on the
: disk, given that I have only 3 primary partitions left?
:
Did you make an extended partition before trying to mkefs??
The id has to be set using fsdisk; if I remember right it was
83, but you can get a list of id's inside fsdisk.
Hank.