Anaconda loses ~100 GByte of disk when installing Fedora 12, was "Part of hard disk disappeared..."

Jussi Lehtola jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org
Wed Nov 25 08:20:12 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 10:11 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 08:49 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote:
> > [root at polaris ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
> > 
> > Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > Disk identifier: 0x000acea3

> According to fdisk, you only have 250GB drive.
> BIOS issue?

That's not possible, since linux doesn't use BIOS calls to access hard
drives. (Only the initial stages of the boot are handled with BIOS.)

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Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
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