Big Hard Drive?

[Alfred]

Hi I have Gparted. A friend with Ultra high speed downloaded it in about
10 minutes. I'll give it a try.
Alfred!

On Sat, 2006-16-12 at 11:40 -0500, R. Wood wrote:
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> Allegedly, on Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:13:09PM -0500, Alfred stated:
> > Hi: I needed a new Hard Drive, and decided on a 1/3 of a Terribyte, or
> > 320 Gigs. 
> 
> I just got one of these also.
> 
> > Then the problem cropped up, my Partitioning Software only sees about
> > 160 Gigs. 
> 
> What Partitioning Software are you using?  I experimented with something
> new (for me) -- 'Gparted LiveCD':
>   http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
> 
> You boot off the CD and then partition from there.  It's kind of a
> 'Partition Magic', only it is FOSS.  Might be worth a look, as it had no
> problem seeing my 320Gb drive.
> 
> Another issue I came across was that I needed to create a separate /boot
> partition to make sure the boot-loader (GRUB) would work properly.  So I
> made sure my first partition was about 100 Mb, bootable, and assigned to
> /boot.
> 
> > The rest of the drive can't be accessed. Is there some Linux Overlay
> > that allows the Whole Drive to be made use of?
> > 
> > TIA
> > Alfred!
> 
> Good luck, and let us know how things go...
> 
> Have Fun with GNU/Linux,
> Raymond
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