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neighborlee Offline

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Posted: Aug. 23 2004,20:17

hi..

cfdisk starts but it can't find any of my HD's with this error:
fatal error..cannot open disk drive

any idea ?

thx
nl

neighborlee Offline

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Posted: Aug. 23 2004,20:29

dain it nm ;-))....it must be run as 'sudo' LOL

cheers
nl

jerome5

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Posted: Aug. 30 2004,02:12

I am posting this as a warning based on my own experience with cfdisk.

If your harddrive does not have freespace before you run cfdisk, you are risking alot by using cfdisk to resize your partion to make room for a dsl HD Install.

I lost XP on one box and corrupted a small portion of win 98 on another macheine (ie corrupted file system).

There is a reason why they make you type out "yes" rather than just y.

Not only did I crash XP once, I messed it up again by resizing the Linux partition to make another partion which I was planning to use to share data between XP and Linux.

cfdisk - use it at your own risk

ke4nt1

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Posted: Aug. 30 2004,02:44

The cfdisk is not a "resizing" program.
It is a partitioning program - an fdisk clone...
It has no abilities to resize, only making or removing partitions.
It is similar in use to fdisk, only somewhat easier to use..

To resize a partition, use an appropriate program like
parted, fips, or partiton magic.

73
ke4nt