Slackware 8.0 partitioning tools.

[Gordon Smith]

Yeah, I tried all that.  Just comes back and tells me I don't have 
permission to write to that drive.  FDisk tells me there are no free 
sectors, when the drive has no partitions on it at all, is 100% free, in 
other words.

At 20:12 15/09/01 -0500, Gregory Nowak said:
>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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