Re: Problems with my HD
Subject: Problems with my HD
Date: Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 03:59:15PM -0600
In reply to:Larry Shields WD9ESU
Quoting Larry Shields WD9ESU(larrysh@itis.com):
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I used Fdisk which showed me this below, and would like to know if someone
> can tell me what cause's this type of a problem, and how to eliminate it
> from
> happening again...
>
Larry
As a good ham you have read the ARRL docs on this, right? (Grin)
>From fdisk.README
The simplest commands are Print, Verify, and Quit. On a small disk, the
Print command might produce a display like this one:
Disk /dev/hda: 5 heads, 17 sectors, 977 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 85 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1 236 10021+ 1 DOS 12-bit
FAT
/dev/hda2 837 837 977 5992+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda3 * 237 237 836 25500 83 Linux native
/dev/hda5 837 837 936 4249+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 942 942 977 1522 1 DOS 12-bit
FAT
There are 5 partitions reported; `/dev/hda4' does not appear because
it is not allocated. Partitions 1 and 3 are flagged as bootable. The
size of each partition is reported in 1 kilobyte blocks; hence the
primary Linux partition, partition 3, is 25 1/2 megabytes in size.
**********
The `+' after three of the sizes warns that these partitions contain an odd
number of sectors: Linux normally allocates filespace in 1 kilobyte
blocks, so the extra sector in partition 5 is wasted. Id numbers are
reported in hexadecimal and explained in English.
>
> My HD is a Western Digital 6.4gb drive...
>
> /dev/hda: 784 cyls, 255 heads, 63 sectors
> units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> device Boot Begin start End Blocks ID System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 1 17 131323+ 6 Dos16-bit>=32M
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: ^^^^
> phys = (16,89,63) should be (16,254,63) ^^^^
>
It is telling you thet you ended the partition at 23 and fdisk wants
you to end it at 16 or 89 or 63.
It takes some time but you can enter them such that you don't get
those pesky '+'.
HTH
Wayne WA1BBB
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Wayne T. Topa <wtopa@ix.netcom.com>
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