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On Thursday 08 February 2007, Michael Higgins wrote: |
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> Hello, list -- |
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> # df -h |
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> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on |
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> /dev/hda3 20G 12G 7.5G 61% / |
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> udev 236M 2.7M 233M 2% /dev |
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> shm 236M 0 236M 0% /dev/shm |
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> /dev/hda5 14G 13G 1.3G 91% /home/col/dump |
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> /dev/hda6 14G 12G 2.0G 86% /home/col/music |
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> lbg2 col # fdisk /dev/hda |
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> Command (m for help): p |
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> Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes |
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> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders |
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> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes |
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> What did I do wrong? It looks like my 80 GB drive is more like 50 GB. |
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> How did I 'lose' the capacity? |
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No, read it again. It doesn't say 50GB. |
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It says (line 1) that you have an 80G disk comprising 155061 cylinders |
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(line 2), each of which are 516096 *bytes* long. |
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btw, lines 2 and 3 are bogus anyway, your drive doesn't look like that, |
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and no drive on the market has looked like that for more than 10 years |
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now. It actually means more something along the lines of |
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"Your disk is 80GB big, and to make your life easier you can consider it |
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to be made up of 155061 cylinders each 0.5M big. Other schemes exist |
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but in actual fact it's really just a long string of 156301488 sectors, |
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numbered sequentially, each one being 512 bytes long" |
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hth |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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