'386 Unix Wars

[Dag Erik Lindberg]

In article <1659 at svin02.info.win.tue.nl> debra at svin02.info.win.tue.nl (Paul de Bra) writes:
>any problem. ISC 2.0.1 (but i believe later versions have the same
>problem) decided (wrongly!) that my system would not support more
>than 1024 cylinders and would not let me access the last 200 cylinders.

I am not absolutely sure about ISC 2.0.1, but 2.0.2 is similar to this in
that the installation script will *tell* you that it is only letting you
use 1024 cylinders, but a footnote in the release notes tell you that
it is OK to specify the whole 1200 or whatever cylinders when making the
file systems.  The limitations are that you must format the drive using
some other program than the unix formatter, and the *root* file system
must fit entirely within the first 1024 cylinders.

Given that you already have a running system, my suggestion would be to
back up the last file system on the disk (or all of them if you are
paranoid), use mkpart to delete that file system.  Then edit /etc/partitions
to add the extra disk space to the last partition/filesystem defined.
Use mkpart to add the partition/filesystem, and initialize with mkfs, you
should be in business with the extra disk space.

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