Re: hard disk size

1999-07-30 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 09:43:35AM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: > "Brian J. McHugh" wrote: > > It appears that cfdisk only detects 200 MB of the 212 MB. Is this normal? > > This may be your standard Manufacturer Calling 1,000,000 bytes a > MB when it's really 1048576 bytes so they can call their >

Re: hard disk size

1999-07-30 Thread Evan Van Dyke
"Brian J. McHugh" wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a IBM PS/2 77-OUA 486SX with a 212 MB HD (I accept condolences). > > It appears that cfdisk only detects 200 MB of the 212 MB. Is this normal? > > Thanks, > Brian This may be your standard Manufacturer Calling 1,000,000 bytes a MB when it's reall

hard disk size

1999-07-30 Thread Brian J. McHugh
Hi, I have a IBM PS/2 77-OUA 486SX with a 212 MB HD (I accept condolences). It appears that cfdisk only detects 200 MB of the 212 MB. Is this normal? Thanks,     Brian

Re: Hard Disk Size

1998-04-08 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> Hi, >> >> > >> As a thought, if Linux couldn't handle large filesystems I don't anyone >> > >> would have bothered implementing RAID for Linux. :) >> > >> > It's already done. I'm running here with 2 0.5GB scsi disks as RAID-0 >> > with /var mounted there. Also something like 20+20mb swap

Re: Hard Disk Size

1998-04-07 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > >> As a thought, if Linux couldn't handle large filesystems I don't anyone > >> would have bothered implementing RAID for Linux. :) > > It's already done. I'm running here with 2 0.5GB scsi disks as RAID-0 > with /var mounted there. Also something like 20+20mb swap partitions > on tho

Re: Hard Disk Size

1998-04-07 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> Hi, >> >> IIRC, as long as you keep your boot sector/partition within the lower 1024 >> sectors of your hard drive you should be alright. I've got a 9.1 GB SCSI >> drive that works fine with my Debian system. >> >> As a thought, if Linux couldn't handle large filesystems I don't anyone >> wou

Re: Hard Disk Size

1998-04-06 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, IIRC, as long as you keep your boot sector/partition within the lower 1024 sectors of your hard drive you should be alright. I've got a 9.1 GB SCSI drive that works fine with my Debian system. As a thought, if Linux couldn't handle large filesystems I don't anyone would have bothered impleme

Hard Disk Size

1998-04-06 Thread Mike Acklin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I am about to buy a new hard drive and would like to know what the max size Debian/Linux can recognize. I have looked over the documentation and FAQs but could not make out exactly what all they meant. I know it says 1024 sectors and 16 heads by 512 bytes