also check /proc/partitions to see what might be showing up there.

Bill Warner

> Am 05. Oct, 2000 schwäzte John W so:
> 
> > Tried fdisk /dev/hda and response was could not open /dev/hda. I tried
> > cfdisk and the command was not available. I don't want to reinstall
> > but if I have it is no big deal. I don't understand why hdparm had
> > such adverse effects on RH7.0 when it did what I wanted in 6.2.
> 
> I'd suggest looking for an hdparm mailing list and searching it. Maybe the
> same with an ext2 list. It's a great opportunity to learn a lot about
> filesystems, ide disk drives and data recovery ;-).
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
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