Re: Centris 650 Debian 10 SID Installation
On Wed, 19 Jun 2019, userm57@yahoo.com wrote:
> On 6/19/19 2:22 AM, Finn Thain wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Jun 2019, userm57@yahoo.com wrote:
> >
> >> On 6/16/19 6:32 PM, Finn Thain wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 12 Jun 2019, userm57@yahoo.com wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ... Here's the disk
> >> partitioning as reported by mac-fdisk in Debian 10:
> >>
> >> -----
> >> # mac-fdisk -l
> >> Disk /dev/sda
> >> # type name length base ( size ) system
> >> /dev/sda1 map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
> >> /dev/sda2 Dr43 Macintosh 32 @ 64 ( 16.0k) Driver 4.3
> >> /dev/sda3 unix root 12582912 @ 96 ( 6.0G) Linux native
> >> /dev/sda4 unix swap 1048576 @ 12583008 (512.0M) Linux swap
> >> /dev/sda5 unix test 8192 @ 13631584 ( 4.0M) Linux native
> >> /dev/sda6 Free Extra 5234593 @ 13639776 ( 2.5G) Free space
> >> /dev/sda7 unix data 4427887 @ 18874369 ( 2.1G) Linux native
> >> /dev/sda8 unix root_backup 4194304 @ 23302256 ( 2.0G) Linux native
> >> /dev/sda9 HFS MacOS 4194304 @ 27496560 ( 2.0G) HFS
> >> /dev/sda10 HFS Data 4194304 @ 31690864 ( 2.0G) HFS
> >>
> >> Block size=512, Number of Blocks=35885168
> >> -----
> >>
> >> This looks suspicious -- 2147483648 looks like something hit a 2 GB
> >> limit. Also, the sizes are wrong, and there's no usr partition, so
> >> maybe these are defaults of some sort?
> >>
> >> parted_server: OUT: 1 512-32767 32256 primary unknown /dev/sda1 Apple
> >> parted_server: OUT: 2 32768-49151 16384 primary unknown /dev/sda2 Macintosh
> >> parted_server: OUT: 3 49152-2147532799 2147483648 primary sun-ufs /dev/sda3 root
> >> parted_server: OUT: 4 2147532800-2684403711 536870912 primary unknown /dev/sda4 swap
> >> parted_server: OUT: 5 2684403712-6979371007 4294967296 primary unknown /dev/sda5 usr
> >> parted_server: OUT: -1 6979371008-9663676927 2684305920 primary free /dev/sda-1
> >> parted_server: OUT: 7 9663676928-11930755071 2267078144 primary ext3 /dev/sda7 data
> >> ...
> >
> > By the end of the log, the partition type seems to have been changed from
> > sun-ufs to ext3 but the size is still 2GB:
> >
> > parted_server: OUT: 3 49152-2147532799 2147483648 primary ext3 /dev/sda3 root
> > parted_server: OUT: 4 2147532800-2684403711 536870912 primary linux-swap /dev/sda4 swap
> > parted_server: OUT: 5 2684403712-6979371007 4294967296 primary ext3 /dev/sda5 usr
> >
> > Did parted initialize a 6 GB filesystem on the sda3 partition, or did you
> > end up with a 2 GiB filesystem at the start of a 6 GB partition?
> >
>
> As far as I can tell, and as reported by "df", the filesystem size is 6
> GB.
Must be a bug.
> Large filesystems (> 2GB) have been supported for a long time,
I believe that Sun UFS is limited to 2 TB. Assuming that this really was
a Sun UFS filesystem. Was it created by NetBSD perhaps?
> so maybe it's a printing error that's only in the log, such as might be
> caused by printing an unsigned int or a long int as an int?
>
I don't see how you get 2 GB from 6 GB with just a formatting bug...
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