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Re: [cobalt-users] 20 gig drives are running (well), only one problem
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] 20 gig drives are running (well), only one problem
- From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon Sep 9 05:11:01 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 jale@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
<SNIP>
> If you look at the drives in fdisk, the partitions are just what you set
> them to, but if you do a df on them, the sizes and free block counts are
> the same as the original 13 gig drive. So the dd copied over that stuff,
> but did not destroy the partitioning itself.
>
Odd, it has something to do with info copied by dd, probably should have
used cp -a or a program called pcopy (partition copy)
I would have thought it would have re-written the partition table.
I think you can increase the partitions with parted.
I installed parted on a RaQ4...
I'll test it on a RaQ3
Gerald
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