[root@localhost ~]# fdisk /dev/sda I took out a 160gb ide hard drive that had a working & updated 64-bit F8 OS and replaced it with a 250gb SATA drive. I placed the ide drive in an external case with a USB interface and mounted the drive using a knoppix live cd. I used the following command in a terminal to clone the ide drive to the sata drive: > dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda The computer boots into F8 without any problems and runs just like it did before. (I have to admit that I was amazed that it was so easy to clone the old drive.) I don't remember (forgot to check) what the partitioning was on the ide F8 drive. When I use fdisk: > fdisk /dev/sda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 30401. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250058268160 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000edcca Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux /dev/sda2 26 19457 156087540 8e Linux LVM Command (m for help): v 175818412 unallocated sectors So I take it that there is a lot of free space not being used. I can put it into a partition but I'm at a loss to know what type of partition (extended, primary, logical). Also, isn't there supposed to be a swap partition? If someone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Rick B. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
