Re: cfdisk hates me ("FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1: Partition ends after end-of-disk"
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?
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....
Thanks Jens! :)
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
> jjorgens@bdsinc.com
>
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