Seth R Arnold wrote: > Jens, do you think it would be a good idea to try to fill my hard drive, so > that if things do start dissapearing, it is when I expect them to, rather > than .. some time in the future, when I likely forget about the problem?
Yeah, that's not a bad strategy. At least then you'd know. You can try: yes > yesfile.txt I guess files can only be 2GB so you might have to do it a couple times. > On the otherhand, I would expect e2fs to throw things mostly randomly on the > drive, so I would think that it would have tried to store things beyond the > edge already? Or isthat a recipe for fragmentation, and hence e2fs does its > best to NOT throw things on the drive randomly.... I wish I could give you a definitive answer. It is also my _belief_ that e2fs puts things all over on the drive and thus you would've hit a non-existent spot already if there was one but I really am not sure. > Thanks Jens! :) Sure. Let me know what you find out (and please copy to my own email since sometimes I miss things on the list--I almost missed this post). Good luck. > On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 01:06:28PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > Hopefully this isn't bad (what would make it no bad? oooh is this > > complicated, see doc > > reference below). I also have one of these IBM disks which reports itself > > as being > > 8GB. If things are working for you then that's great. I'm currently only > > using 8GB of > > mine for this same reason. > > > > Why does the disk report itself as being 8GB? Because 8GB is the absolute > > limit which > > is addressable using c/h/s as reported by INT 13 (1024 cylinders, 256 > > heads, 63 > > sectors). With LBA (logical block address) up to 137GB may be addressed. > > This answer > > I'm sure raises more questions. The topic is a long and sordid piece of PC > > history. > > There's an extensive doc on the subject at > > ftp://ftp.wi.leidenuniv.nl/pub/faqs/bios.faq. Note that this document is a > > bit dated > > and PC bioses have changed since the time of its writing. > > > > Seth R Arnold wrote: > > > > > Hey guys. I am a bit worried. > > > > > > cfdisk gives me this error: > > > FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1: Partition ends after end-of-disk > > > > > > I, being one of the sort-of-cautious type, am scared. > > > > > > Here is a nice little output from df: > > > amidala:/home/sarnold/redwood# df > > > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > > /dev/hda6 13411348 1103240 11610889 9% / > > > /dev/hda1 31077 1348 28125 5% /boot > > > > > > This is an ibm 14.4 gb hdd. > > > > > > From my /var/log/messages file: > > > Sep 6 23:00:22 amidala kernel: hda: IBM-DTTA-371440, 7559MB w/462kB > > > Cache, > > > CHS=1757/255/63 > > > > > > Since things mostly worked, and still mostly work, I sort of ignored this. > > > > > > Was this a Very Dumb Thing To Do? > > > > > > Please help me understand this. :) > > > > -- > > Jens B. Jorgensen > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ > Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
