the Maxtor_6L120P0 is purportedly a 120gb disc, indeed the one i have here says so on its label, however fdisc claims it only has 33.8 GB. fdisk seems to have a command to change the number of cylinders, i tried that, whereupon fdisk shows the given new number of cylinders, but still shows the total number of sectors as unchanged, and won't create a partition that goes beyond the original number of sectors, so what's the point of the fdisk cylinders command, it's not at all clear to me. do i really have a 120gb disc here? if so, how do i start using all 120gb? any clues/ideas?