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List:       openbsd-ppc
Subject:    Re: Can not see all of 60 GB hard drive with fdisk
From:       COLIN COMOLLATTI <c.comollatti () cqu ! edu ! au>
Date:       2002-10-07 23:02:08
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G'Day All

Thanks to Dale, the hard drive problem is fixed.

Lesson here is not to add Mac in the "Google" search. :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Rahn [mailto:dalerahn@comcast.net]
Sent: Monday, 7 October 2002 12:07
To: Colin Comollatti
Cc: ppc@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: Can not see all of 60 GB hard drive with fdisk


On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 06:51:00AM +1000, Colin Comollatti wrote:
> G'Day All
> 
> fdisk:*1> print
> Disk: wd0     geometry: 16383/16/63 [120103200 Sectors]
> Offset: 0       Signature: 0x0
>   Starting   Ending  LBA Info:
>#: id C H S - C H S [ start:   size ]
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>0: 06 0 0 2 - 2 0 33 [1: 2048 ] DOS > 32MB
>1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [0: 0 ] unused
>2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [0: 0 ] unused
>*3: A6 3 0 1 - 119149 15 63 [ 3024: 120100176 ] OpenBSD
> 
> 
> How do I make fdisk to see the full size of  hard drive?
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> The computer will be used as a mail server with only OpenBSD 
> operating system and 1GB of memory.
> 

The problem is that fdisk does not deal with LBA disks properly.

The MBR disklabel is fine, however when editing the paritions with disklabel
issues the command 'b' to change the bounds, and use '*' as the Size.
this will allow the rest of the disk to be partitioned as expected.

This should be in the FAQ somewhere, the same is necessary for i386.
Dale Rahn				dalerahn@comcast.net

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