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    SubjectRe: over 5Gb missing from a 13.5Gb disk
    Previously Khimenko Victor wrote:
    > You gave way not enough information to gave you wise answer (what version of
    > kernel you are using, what motherboard, what version of hdparm, etc, etc).

    Kernel: 2.2.14pre11. hdparm version 3.6. Motherboard is an Intel SE440BX.

    > Try to do the following:
    >
    > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
    >
    > Then reboot. This way you'll destroy partition table completely and kernel
    > will not try to use it to determine size of disk.

    Already tried that, it doesn't help. That was actually the very first
    thing I tried..

    Wichert.

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