[mdlug] T61 Thinkpad Recovery Partition

[Peter Bart]

On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 19:54 -0500, Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
> Peter Bart wrote:
> 
> > 	Okay, I partitioned it with fdisk, using all available sectors. ie the
> > last partition; /home or sda9 used up whatever was left. With fdisk v I
> > found out there are still 5475 unallocated sectors. 12'161 were
> > allocated to partitions sda1-9. The install still only reports 93GB
> > available. Am I on the right track with GRUB?
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> 
> Before you knock yourself out looking for a phantom partition, have you
> considered that sometimes
>   100GB = 100*1000*1000*1000 = 100,000,000,000B
> and some times
>    93GB =  93*1024*1024*1024 =  99,857,989,632B
> which rounds to 99.9GB or 100GB when counted the first way?

	Yes I did think of that but since I can't boot anything despite
successfully installing openSUSE, and the references here
<http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-46088.html> describing
just exactly what I did.
	There should be some sort of option in the BIOS; yes it's been updated;
to disable the recovery partition but I haven't seen it. I've been
through the BIOS so many times I'm going to dream about it. I then found
this
<http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Hardware/Clean_Hard_Drive_zero_fill> which promises to wipe a hard drive. That didn't do it either. Which would seem to prove that some partition is still protected?

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Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
http://petertheplumber.net