Re: How to get a 56G disk to be recognized by parted.

[Hans Deragon]

Greetings Andrew.

Andrew Clausen wrote:
> 
> Hi Hans!
> 
> Sorry, I'm not thinking straight!
> 
> I don't think the problem is related to geometry, or
> anything like that...
> 
> I have a sneaking suspicion that Windows ME created or
> modified your partition table.  When it does that for large
> partitions, it creates an invalid partition table (i.e.
> inconsistent with the standard for 10 years, or whatever...)
> 
> Parted 1.4.11 can handle their brokenness... so use that!

Its Windows 98, and you are probably right.  However, I fixed
my problem with a totally different solution.  I needed to
export this VFAT fs to another machine using NFS, but NFS does
not export VFAT anymore in Linux 2.4.  Thus, my desire to
create a ext2 partition and move all the data there.

However, I learned that I could use samba to export the system,
which I did and works nicely.  Thus I do not need parted anymore.

> Thanks,
> Andrew Clausen
> 
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Your help was appreciated.  Thank you very much.
Hans Deragon