Hi gang -
So, I installed a 20 GB hard drive as a slave drive in my Red Hat 8 box (this is a Linux only box - no windows partitions). I ran fdisk on /dev/hdb1 (the new drive) and it only recognizes it as having 964 cylinders. I created the primary partition and then ran MKFS.ext3 and it shows up as a 7.3 GB drive. I ran the Gnome Hardware Browser and it lists cylinders 1 - 964 as ext3 and cylinders 964 - 2435 as Free Space which Fdisk won't let me make part of partition 1.
I did the change cylinders option in FDISK and changed it to 2435 and it looks like it works but df -h says it's only a 7.3 GB drive.
Any other ideas?

Thanks!
Chris


Edited: "hdb2" to read "hdb1"

It sounds to me as if the partition table is being read incorrectly. That happened to my current HDD once I changed partition from Linux loaded within the drive itself. I used the Gentoo Live CD to straighten it out. I reccomend running fdisk and creating a new DOS partition table. If that doesn't work, get some sort of Live CD and do it from that.

I ran fdisk on /dev/hdb2

this should be fdisk /dev/hdb not hdb2.

That was a typo. It should read
"I ran fdisk on /dev/hdb1"

Oh, that's the problem. You should run fdisk on a partition number, just the drive like this.

fdisk /dev/hdb

I hope that works for you.

That was it!
Thank you!
I just dropped off the 1 and it worked