cfdisk starts but it can't find any of my HD's with this error: fatal error..cannot open disk drive
any idea ?
thx nldain it nm ;-))....it must be run as 'sudo' LOL
cheers nlI am posting this as a warning based on my own experience with cfdisk.
If your harddrive does not have freespace before you run cfdisk, you are risking alot by using cfdisk to resize your partion to make room for a dsl HD Install.
I lost XP on one box and corrupted a small portion of win 98 on another macheine (ie corrupted file system).
There is a reason why they make you type out "yes" rather than just y.
Not only did I crash XP once, I messed it up again by resizing the Linux partition to make another partion which I was planning to use to share data between XP and Linux.
cfdisk - use it at your own riskThe cfdisk is not a "resizing" program. It is a partitioning program - an fdisk clone... It has no abilities to resize, only making or removing partitions. It is similar in use to fdisk, only somewhat easier to use..
To resize a partition, use an appropriate program like parted, fips, or partiton magic.
73 ke4nt
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To resize a partition, use an appropriate program like parted, fips, or partiton magic.
Please put that in the faq that opens in the cd (or is it but I just didnt see it.)Next Page...
original here.