Slackware 8.0 partitioning tools.

[Frank Carmickle]

that would be
fdisk /dev/hdc

On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> I forgot to ask if you're specifying to cfdisk
> that you want to work with the /dev/hdc drive?
> By default, cfdisk uses /dev/hda for all operations.
> To specify the drive, simply do "cfdisk hdc" for example.
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 09:01:13PM -0100, Gordon Smith wrote:
> > Hi.  Problem when installing Slackware 8.0.  I have a completely 
> > unpartitioned hard drive in my system, which would be /dev/hdc - meaning 
> > that it is drive number 3.  CFDisk and Fdisk will not allow me to write to 
> > this drive, to prepare a Linux partition.  Any ideas why this could 
> > be?  CFDisk says I do not have permition to write to this drive, and FDisk 
> > says there are no free sectors.  I have to say that the SuSE partitioning 
> > tools seem much more intelligent, it handles it with no problem 
> > whatsoever.  Assuming I cannot get this to work, is there a tool within 
> > Slackware which would allow me to shrink a FAT32 Windows partition?  Better 
> > still, does anybody else run SuSE with speech?  If so, could they create me 
> > a boot disk image?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Kind regards, Gordon Smith.
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